Letter Advocating for Dr. Schapira's Emigration from Soviet Russia (1972)

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Letter to Kremlin Ministry of Interior Advocating for Dr. Schapira's Emigration from Soviet Russia (1972)

Honorable Sir: I have cabled you before on behalf of Dr. Beniamin Schapiro, son of a very dear friend of mine, and have received no reply. I enclose the telegram which I sent today to President Nixon and Dr. Kurt Waldheim. Dr. Schapiro’s parents are elderly, sick, and desperate. Simple humanity calls for the release of Dr. Schapiro and his family at once. Sincerely, Rabbi Norman Lamm

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Letter to Chairman Kosygin Advocating for Dr. Schapira's Emigration from Soviet Russia (1972)

Dear Mr. Kosygin: I take the privilege of sending you enclosed a copy of a telegram that I recently sent to President Nixon and Secretary General Waldheim on behalf of a large number of colleagues and friends. We are all of us concerned about the fate of Dr. Benjamin Schapira of Belgorod. I implore you in the name of decency and compassion, as well as the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights to which your country is a signatory, to allow Dr. Schapira and his family to emigrate to Israel and be reunited with his old and sick parents. Certainly a great power like the U.S.S.R. will not suffer if it will allow one family to be reunited and allow an old and sick father and mother to have their one great dream fulfilled, that of seeing their children once again.Respectfully yours,Rabbi Norman LammNL:cwEnc.

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Letter to President Podgorny Advocating for Dr. Schapira's Emigration from Soviet Russia (1972)

Dear Mr. Podgorny: I take the privilege of sending you enclosed a copy of a telegram that I recently sent to President Nixon and Secretary General Waldheim on behalf of a large number of colleagues and friends. We are all of us concerned about the fate of Dr. Benjamin Schapira of Belgorod. I implore you in the name of decency and compassion, as well as the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights to which your country is a signatory, to allow Dr. Schapira and his family to emigrate to Israel and be reunited with his old and sick parents. Certainly a great power like the U.S.S.R. will not suffer if it will allow one family to be reunited and allow an old father and mother to have their one great dream fulfilled, that of seeing their children once again.Respectfully yours,Rabbi Norman LammNL:cwEnc.

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