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Washington (JTA) — A co-
alition of national and
Washington-based Jewish
groups rallied outside the
Syrian Embassy this week to
protest the denial of travel
visas to the 1,400 Jews re-
maining in Syria.
About 70 demonstrators
representing at least five
Jewish organizations dem-
onstrated last week for more
than an hour with signs
reading "Freedom for Syrian
Jews."
The rally was held across
the street from the embassy,
in accordance with an or-
dinance that prohibits the
obstruction of traffic in front
of diplomatic missions.
According to Gilbert
Kahn, executive director of
the Council for the Rescue of
Syrian Jews, only 50 Jews
have been allowed to leave
the country since October,
when the Damascus
government virtually
suspended issuing travel
permits to Jews.
During the prior six mon-
ths, more than 2,600 Jews
had been permitted to leave
the country, after the Syrian
government lifted longstan-
ding travel restrictions in
April 1992.
"With renewed pressure
from a variety of sources,
congressional as well as
others, the Syrians have
begun to issue two to three
permits a week over the past
few weeks. But essentially
they're not letting anyone
out," Mr. Kahn said.
"We are hoping to upgrade
our public protest and just
get more attention to the
issue," said Reva Price,
assistant director of B'nai
B'rith's department of
international, governmental
and Israel affairs.
After the demonstration,
the protesters tried to pre-
sent a letter protesting the
restrictions against Jews to
Syrian Ambassador Walid
al-Moualem, but the em-
bassy would not accept it.
Instead, a State Depart-
ment official delivered a
copy of a press release
stating the intent of the
demonstration.
According to Tami Schultz
of the Jewish Community
Council of Greater Washing-
ton, the letter will be mailed
to the ambassador this week.
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Protesters Rally
At Syrian Embassy
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ment and assurances that
President Hafez al-Assad
has given to two consecutive
United States administra-
tions to permit all the Jews
of Syria to travel, as entire
family units, for business
and for pleasure," the letter
says.
"By delivering this letter,
we are asking Syrian leaders
to recognize civil rights and
give Syrian Jews exit visas
for travel," said Evan
Krame, chairman of the
World Jewry Commission.
Mr. Kahn of the Syrian
Jewry council said that Mr.
Assad and Foreign Minister
Farouk al-Sharaa had prom-
ised Secretary of State
Warren Christopher in
February that the
"moratorium on travel for
Syrian Jews was merely a
bureaucratic problem and
that the ban would be
lifted."
"Christopher has assured
us that he continues to work
with us, but we have to step
things up for ourselves,"
said Ms. Price.
Collaborator
May Be Tried
Budapest (JTA) — Jozef
Szendi, the 78-year-old
Hungarian Nazi col-
laborator who left the
United States last month
after being stripped of his
American citizenship, may
return to Hungary, but could
face criminal charges if he
does so.
Mr. Szendi faces charges in
Hungary connected with the
publication of his
Hungarian-language book,
Fate of a Gendarme, which
details his World War II ex-
periences in pro- Nazi
groups.
After the war, Mr. Szendi
served two years in a
Hungarian prison for war
crimes tied to collaboration,
but not persecution of Jews.
He made his way to the
United States in 1956.
Mr. Szendi settled in Ten-
nessee. Last year he was
accused by the U.S. Justice
Department of lying about
his wartime activities.
The complaint alleged that
Mr. Szendi personally
transported Jews being
deported from Hungary to
Galicia, where the Nazi SS
shot them to death.
Mr. Szendi left the United
States last month,