Page 2 of Resume 265 Marshall Court Long Branch, New Jersey Telephone: (201)-222-5932 Born December 4, 1917, Brooklyn, N.Y. Bachelor of Science, 1941 Married, 2 children Former Associate of Research Institute I was born December 4, 1917 in Brooklyn, N.Y. My father, Philip Abram, was successively a salesman, a machinist, a baker, and worked in a bank. He came to the U.S. in 1911, at the age of 13, left Russia with my grandparents. My mother, Anna Abram, born in 1895, also in Russia, attended school there for 4 years. In 1913, our family moved to the U.S. and she became a housewife. My younger brother, Dr. Isidore Abram, is now a dentist in N.Y. I was circumcised in accordance with Jewish rites and later was confirmed in the faith as a Christian. My mother worked as a stenographer and my father as a machinist. I graduated from school in June 1935 and was admitted as a student in the City College of New York. In 1936, I was transferred to a school in the new Automobile and Aviation Institute. In 1937 I entered the U.S. Army and was promoted to the rank of 1st Lt. I served in the U.S. Army for 4 years and 6 months. I graduated in 1941, at the beginning of the war in Germany and was sent as a 2nd lieutenant to a railway battalion in the Army. In 1942, I was sent to Military School in Ft. Myers, Va. I was sent to Italy as a platoon officer. It was during this time that I was converted to the Christian faith. I left the Army in April 1945. At this time I was discharged from the Soviet Army due to conscientious objection. I was a senior librarian in the technical section of the Moscow City System. In 1949 due to the small number of publications the received my position as a librarian in the library was eliminated. I was given a job as a research assistant in the chemical institute of the Academy of Sciences. I was a senior engineer in the Army for Road Repair. Of course, after 1945, I was married and raised a family. My wife was a bookkeeper. She was dismissed in 1949. In 1950, my father was killed, my mother died in 1947. We came to the Soviet Army as a stateless person. In 1951, my wife and I were taken to Moscow by the authorities. She died in 1952 and our children were declared stateless. In 1953, I was sent to a camp in Siberia and we were deprived of our citizenship. At the end of 1953, I was released. We were given a new name and were considered stateless. In 1954, I was married again. In 1955, we were given permission to leave the U.S. In 1956, we were given permission to leave the U.S. In 1957, we continued to hand in applications approximately every six months to leave the Soviet Union permanently. And we continued to regularly receive letters to the effect that the authorities concerned had refused our applications. In 1957, we received our first visas to visit the U.S. In 1958, we continued to hand in applications approximately every six months to leave the Soviet Union permanently. And we continued to regularly receive letters to the effect that the authorities