Zand Tells Thant Family in Critical Situation
as some 2,000 persons representing visit to the Soviet Union between
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. UNITED NATIONS N.Y. (JTA) congregations, yeshivot, Jewish May 22-30 • and his fruitless efforts
—Describing himself as "a former civic organizations and university to observe the Riga trial. With ob-
disgust, Prof. McGee said:
citizen of the USSR,' Prof. Mikkail student groups gathered at this vious
"I was scheduled to stay in Riga
Brooklyn
residential
and
resort
I. Zand of Moscow has advised
six days but I stayed only three.
Secretary General Thant and the community Sunday afternoon to After three days my Intourist
Human Rights. Commission, as denounce the persecution of Soviet guides told me it would be best for
well as the Soviet leadership, that Jews.
In an impassioned speech, Rabbi me to leave."
he and the other six members of
McGee said he particularly want-
his family "are in a critical situa- Steven Riskin, spiritual leader of ed to see Ruth Aleksandrovich, 23-
Square
Synagogue
and
the
Lincoln-
tion."
chairman of the Center for Soviet year-old nurse who was one of the
Zand, whose attempts to migrate Jewry, declared that the Jews of defendants at the Riga trial. He
to Israel have been rebuffed by the the Soviet Union. are "no longer had a letter from her mother, Mrs.
Soviets since he gave up his Soviet afraid." They will "live as Jews, Rivka Aleksandrovich, pleading
citizenship May 13 and whose visa leave as Jews or die as Jews."
with him to visit her daughter. But
_ permit has been postponed for an
the Soviet authorities were un
Referring
to
the
trial
scheduled
"indefinite period," made his plea
moved, he said. He said he also
known in a letter _delivered to to begin June 21, Rabbi Riskin was prevented from seeing mem-
Thant by Israel Ambassador Yosef broke out into a chant: "Free the bers of her family.
Tekoah. Zand registered his "cate- Kishinev Nine. Free the Kishinev
Prof. McGee visited Moscow,
gorical protest in connection with Nine. The massacre of 1903 cannot Leningrad and Riga. He had iden-
the shameful and illegal acts corn- be allowed to repeat itself in 1971. tification as chairman of the UCLA
mitted toward me and my family," Am Yisrael Hai." Stating that dur- faculty committee for Angela Dav-,
who gave up their apartment and ing the Kishinev pogrom of 1903 is, American black militant facing
belongings and are being "forcibly the world was silent, he declared: trial on charges of complicity in a
detained" and "deprived of every "The world was silent during the kidnap-murder in California and a
(Menahem Mendel) Beilis trial (in former UCLA faculty member. He
means of subsistence."
Zand called the Soviet policy "a 1913). And it was silent during the also is a member of the National
crude mockery of elementary hu- tragedy of 6,000,000 lives lost where Committee of Law Professors of
man rights and a manifestation of everyone was afraid. The Pope Major American Universities in
inhumanity on the part of the min- was afraid. The State Department Support of Defense Counsel for
, istry of interior of the USSR, as it was afraid. President Roosevelt Miss Davis.
is known that I am an invalid and was afraid. We..must say with the
my wife and my mother are sick." Russian Jews, we are not afraid." Five Immigrant Families
(Prof. Herbert Paper of the Uni-
Religious and political leaders— Demand Better Housing
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Five immi-
versity of Michigan had spoken to Jewish and non-Jewish—denounced
Dr. Zand, by overseas phone from the Soviet Union for its persecu- grant families from Soviet Georgia
Ann Arbor to Moscow, twice in tion of Soviet Jewry and called who landed Monday night staged
the past week. He conversed with for continued efforts to alleviate a sit-in at the absorption ministry
offices at Lydda airport to protest
him last Friday, and on Tuesday the plight of Russian Jewry.
the location of the flats assigned
afternoon_ Dr. Zand informed him
(A so-called Jewish Identity
that the Russian visa office told Week, June 23-27, is announced by to them. Ministry officials said the
him he would have to wait another activist groups which include the demonstration was incited by rela-
two weeks for a final decision on Jewish Defense League. A _demon- tives of the new arrivals.
The immigrants demanded flats
his application for a permit to go stration for Soviet Jewry is plan-.
to Israel. The Soviet official told ned to take place in Washington, in Lydda instead of in Ramleh, an
him if his visa request was denied June 27, at the Soviet Embassy. adjacent previously Arab town.
he would have his status restored, There will be mock trials, seminars Officials tried to explain that Lyd-
da and Ramleh were "twin cities."
to which Zand replied that under and entertainment.
Uri Narkis, executive director
no circumstances would he accept
(Participation in this function is
a return to Soviet citizenship, that planned by the Detroit chapter of of the Jewish Agency's immigra-
he insists on being an Israeli—citi- the Jewish Defense League and for tion department, said that Russian-
zenship having been granted him those desiring to participate the speaking personnel will be em--
in absentia—and that he could not only address given is Post Office ployed shortly in absorption cent-
ers throughout the country to ex-
be ousted from his home in Mos- Box 3703, Oak Park.)
! pedite the processing of immi-
cow because he is now considered Youth Forced Into Army
grants from the Soviet Union. He
an invalid.)
After Renouncing Citizenship
said about a third of the immi-
Eight Kishinev Jewish
LONDON (JTA)—A group repre- grants from Russia are being
Students Ask for Israeli
senting the Universities Committee channeled through absorption cen-
Citizenship Under New Law
for Soviet J e wry demonstrated ters. New centers started to func-
JERUSALEM (JTA)=Eight Jew- peacefully outside the Soviet Em- tion recently at Beit Shemesh
ish students from Kishinev, in So- bassy Monday to protest the al- which has 40 apartments, and Par-
viet Moldavia, have sent a. letter leged mistreatment of Leonid Kol- des Hannah. New centers will open
to President Zalman Shazar asking chinsky, a 19-year-old Jewish youth this summer at Maalot and Givat
for Israeli citizenship under a re- from Kharkov who, reportedly, was
with 60 and 90 flats respec-
', cently adopted amendment to the forcibly drafted into the Red army Ada
tively, Narkis said.
:immigration law under which Jews after he expressed a wish to go to
Monday night's plane from Vien-
prevented from coming to Israel Israel.
na brought another large group of
can be granted citizenship in ab-
Mrs. Lena Volkova, a Soviet Soviet Jews. One of the newcom-
sentia.
emigre from Kharkov who knew
The signers said most of them the Kolchinsky family, said the ers, Mrs. Batya Levin of Riga,
had been expelled from Russian young man was drafted for mili- said she and her husband were
universities because of their Zion- tary service after he renounced his given exit visas when they insisted
ist convictions. "We have learned Soviet citizenship and said the only on testifying for the defense in last
with great pleasure of the new law country he would fight for was month's trial of four Jews in Riga.
Mrs. Levin said Soviet authorities
and wish to become Israeli citi- Israel.
tried to force her to testify for the
zens," they wrote. Nine Jews are
According to Mrs. Volkova he
expected to go on trial in Kishinev was ordered to report for duty in prosecution but that she refused.
She said she was subjected to daily
on June 21.
24 hours, then was badly beaten,
In New York, the cry of "Am arrested and jailed for 20 days for interrogation for one year by the
Yisrael Hai," and "Free the "causing a disturbance." Once in Soviet security services.
Kishinev Nine," reverberated along the army he was told he would be
the boardwalk in Brighton Beach sent to the Chinese front. Instead Pincus- Will Remain
he was sent to a "corrective camp"
for "drunkards and hooligans," Jewish Agency Head
Mrs. Volkova reported.
JERUSALEM (ZINS) — A rieh
Professor Was Denied Right
Pincus, chairman of the Jewish
to Attend Trial of Riga Four
Agency, announced his intention
LONDON (JTA)—An ' American of continuing in his present posi-
law professor with credentials as tion after the 28th Zionist Con-
a civil rights activist, was denied gi'ess, to take p l a c e in Jeru-
Made in Israel
permission by Soviet authorities to salem in 1972. He said he would
For American Cars
attend the trial of four Jews in do so at the direct request and
Now Available at
Riga or to visit any of the defend- urging of Israel President Zalmaii
ants.
Shazar.
Dynamic Tire
Prof. Henry McGee Jr., who
It had been revealed that Pincus
3826 N. Woodward
teaches criminal law at the Univer- was offered the position of chair-
549-7350
sity of California, Los Angeles, man of the board of Bank Leumi,
gave the JTA an account of his which he was inclined to accept.
.
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Radial Ply Passenger
TIRES
6—Friday, June 11, 1971
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Students to Honor Henry Baum,
Central High Assistant Principal
Henry S. Baum, assistant princi-
pal of Central High School, will be
presented with an honorary dip-
loma in recognition of his "out-
standing contributions to Central
in the field of education" at com-
mencement exercises Thursday.
This is the first year that Cen-
tral has awarded the honorary
diploma. The recipients—Baum and
community leader Mrs. Helen
Kelly—were picked by the student
council with the backing of the
student body and faculty.
Baum was described by collea-
gues as enjoying excellent rapport
with his students.
A member of the board of
education and board of directors
of Beth Yehudah Schools, Baum
is on the board of Cong. Bnai
Israel. He also taught for many
years with the United Hebrew
Schools.
Born in Cologne, Baum was 11
when he left Germany, three
months before war broke out.
From England, where he lived in
an orphanage for three years, he
came to the U.S. in 1947. He re-
ceived his BA and MA degree in
education from Wayne State Uni-
versity and is currently working
on his PhD.
Baum has held many posts with
the Detroit Public Schools, includ-
ing teacher, counselor and assist-
ant principal. He was promoted to
Durfee Junior High assistant prin-
cipal three years ago, and last
September was asked to take the
Central post by its principal, j
Hertha Jenkins.
There are bad people who would j
be less dangerous if they had no
good in them. —La Rochefoucauld
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