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Louis Zuker

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Ohio
Support
Communism
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Biography

Dr. Louis Zuker was a 63-year-old Cleveland optometrist who had come from Poland some fifty years earlier. In 1958 he won his appeal from a deportation order based on alleged Communist Party membership, the Board of Immigration Appeals having found the government's witnesses unreliable.

Case

Charges: Walter-McCarran Act deportation
Sentence: Deportation order set aside on appeal Charges as recorded: Walter-McCarran Act deportation — alleged Communist Party membership
Convicted: Deportation order; won on appeal (1958)