One of the solutions of the Soviet Government for the problem of anti-Semitism in the Ukraine, which developed sharply after World War II ended, is to “remove Jews from the Ukraine and resettle them in Birobijan,” Joseph Newman, former Moscow correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, reported today in his series of articles on current conditions in the Soviet Union.
He stated that during the 18-month period preceding April, 1948, 20,000 Jews were reported to have been transferred from the Ukraine to Birobijan. Anti-Semitism in the Ukraine, Mr. Newman stated, “inflamed by the German occupation, continues to be strong.” Some of the Jews resettled in Birobijan, he added, reported that “many Jews were killed in the Ukraine in 1946 and it was not safe for them to leave their homes after nightfall.”
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