In spite of an official denial by the Iraq government published in this morning’s edition of the influential French newspaper, Le Monde, reports continue to reach Western capitals that nine of the eleven Iraqi Jews imprisoned in Baghdad’s notorious Kasrel Nihaya Prison have been murdered.
Noting the continuing fears and uncertainty, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress, today sent a telegram on behalf of the WJC to Kurt Waldheim, Secretary General of the United Nations, urging him to use his “good offices to obtain from the Iraq government information regarding Jews held in Kasr el Nihaya Prison in Baghdad. There are great fears that nine of them may have been killed. The most convincing evidence would be to allow them, if alive, to be seen by their families.”
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