Jews behind the Iron Curtain continue to endure the tragic burden of isolation from the Jews of the rest of the world, Abraham S. Hyman, newly-appointed administrative director of the World Jewish Congress, asserted at the annual meeting last night of the Brooklyn Division of the American Jewish Congress.
Mr. Hyman, a former advisor on Jewish affairs to U.S. High Commissioner McCloy and Gen. Keyes in 1949 and 1950, and former general council of the United States War Claims Commission, said that “the process of sealing off the Jewish community in the Soviet Union and her satellites from even the remotest and most innocent relations with Jewish communities abroad, has virtually been completed.”
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