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Article: Migration of Soviet Jews to Germany Stirs Delicate Debate
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- The Washington Post
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- October 25, 1990
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Eduard's family was killed during the Nazi occupation of the
Ukraine. This summer, Eduard came home one day to his Leningrad
apartment and found swastikas scrawled on the door and a letter on
the floor.
"You have two weeks to leave the country, you dirty Jews," said
the unsigned letter. Eduard and his wife packed a few things and got
a tourist visa.
To Germany.
In one of this century's most unlikely waves of emigration,
thousands of Soviet Jews have fled their homeland's economic crisis
and religious prejudice and moved to the country that attempted to
wipe out their people a half century ago
But the wave lasted only from early summer until last month, when
the Bonn government stopped ...