Religious Persecution in the Soviet Union – Part I: Soviet Jewry
Wednesday, September 11, 1985, 4:00 am
Witnesses
Morris B. Abram
Chairman
National Conference on Soviet Jewry
Herbert Kronisch
Chairman
Coalition to Free Soviet Jews
Morey Schapira
President
Union of Councils for Soviet Jews
Isi Leibler
Member
International Council of the World Conference on Soviet Jewry
Annette Lantos
Founder and Cochair
Congressional Spouses Committee of 21 & International Free Wallenberg Committee
Janet Waxman
Member
Congressional Wives for Soviet Jewry and Congressional Spouses Committee of 21
Leonid Feldman
Former Member
Refusenik
Hon. Edward J. Derwinski
Counselor
U.S. Department of State and former Member of Congress from the State of Illinois
Susan Wagner
Soviet Desk Officer
U.S. Department of State
Ron Neitzke
Special Assistant
Office of Edward J. Derwinski
This hearing, which Hon. Gus Yatron, chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations, presided over, discussed the plight of the Jewish population in what was then the Soviet Union. Specifically, the hearing discussed this mistreatment as it related to United States foreign policy, specifically the Jackson-Vanik amendment, and new human rights initiatives to address the mistreatment in question.
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