The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America has reported a protest to Soviet officials over the “elimination of the Jewish identity of the Jewish cemetery in Malakahovka” which is about 15 miles from Moscow. Harold Jacobs, president, sent telegrams of protest to Soviet ambassadors Anatoly Dobrynin in Washington and Yakov Malik in the United Nations.
Jacobs said an officer of his organization, now traveling in Russia, had reported that he had seen workmen removing the boundary markers which delineated the Jewish cemetery’s borders, and that burials were being made in the Jewish cemetery “in complete disregard of its Jewish character.” Jacobs urged the Soviet envoys to cease the de-Judaiazation of the Malakahovka Jewish cemetery and to restore it to its Jewish identity.”
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