The American Jewish Congress has asked United Nations General Assembly President Stanislaw Trepczynski–Poland’s Ambassador to the UN–to intercede with Polish authorities for an exit permit for Leopold Trepper, the ailing World War II “Red Orchestra” leader, who is seeking to join his family in Israel. In a letter sent Friday to Trepczynski, Jacqueline Levine of West Orange, N.J., an AJCongress vice-president and president of its Women’s Division, said the UN official’s intercession would be “in the great tradition established by previous presidents of the General Assembly in cases of gross deprivation of personal liberty.”
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