A delegation of five Swiss rabbis headed by the Chief Rabbi of Zurich, Mordechai Piron, presented the Soviet Embassy in Bern today with a letter of protest regarding the recent activity of the KGB in Odessa.
The KGB confiscated tefilin and bibles. The delegation told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that they would not be silenced over the growth of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. Such acts are a breach of the Human Rights Convention and the Helsinki agreement of which the USSR is a signatory, they said.
The delegation was accompanied by the president of the Swiss Committee for Soviet Jews, Werner Rom.
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