The Workmen’s Circle, national Jewish fraternal and cultural organization, decided at its quadrennial national convention here today to stage a “massive indignation” week, beginning June 18, to help arouse American public opinion against “Khrushchev’s final solution of the Jewish problem.”
Israel Breslow, president of the Workmen’s Circle, announced that 65, 000 members of the organization, in 31 states and in several Canadian provinces, will participate in “indignation week.” The drive will include mass picketing of United Nations headquarters and the Soviet Embassy in New York, special synagogal and church services and sermons throughout the country, and other efforts to call attention to the situation of the Jews in Russia.
“We are extremely pessimistic,” he said, “about the fate of Russia’s 3, 000, 000 Jews. The only real hope is that they may be permitted to leave Russia, for it is perfectly plain they will not be permitted to survive as Jews.”
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