Jewish Anti-Fascist Cmte. - Aug./Sep. 2004

September 23:	Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee Remembered
September 21:	"Murdered Poets" Memorial Unveiled
August 17:	Moldovan Jews Commemorate Massacre
For more information, read about NCSJ's 50th Anniversary Commemoration of The Night of the Murdered Poets

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 RFE/RL - 08.17.2004

RFE/RL

MOLDOVAN JEWS COMMEMORATE WRITERS LIQUIDATED BY STALINIST REGIME


Representatives of Moldovan Jewish organizations, of the Israeli consulate in Chisinau, and of the Moldovan Department for Interethnic Relations last week honored 14 Soviet Jewish writers who were killed at Stalin's orders following World War II, Infotag reported.

Theodor Madger, chairman of the Association of Jewish Organizations in Moldova, said the event was the first time such a commemoration has taken place in public in Moldova. Madger said that the occasion was marked previously only in "closed circles of Jewish people."

During the war the 14 writers were all members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, which helped enlist considerable support for the Soviet Union in the West. After the war, most of them were either executed or sent to concentration camps where they perished. 

According to the 1989 Soviet census, 1.5 percent of Moldova's population is Jewish. However, many of the country's Jews are believed to have emigrated to Israel, the United States, and Western Europe since then.