30 Young Georgian Jews on Hunger Strike
to Protest Delays in Processing Visas
LONDON (JTA)—More than 30
Jewish youth, most of them wear-
ing Stars of David on their clothes,
defied Moscow police and re-
mained on the premises of the cen-
tral telegraph office in the Soviet
capital Tuesday night, where they
have been conducting a hunger
strike to protest delays in process-
ing their visa applications.
According to information reach-
ing here from Moscow, the youths
say they are from Soviet Georgia.
They entered the telegraph office
Monday and sat on benches or
stood quietly at the counter. They
politely but firmly declined to
move when police ordered them to
do so, sources reported.
Members of the group said they
had telegraphed the Central Com-
mittee of the Soviet Communist
Party asking that their case be
taken up. Two weeks ago, a group
of Jews from Latvia and Lithuania
held a similar sit-in at the Moscow
telegraph office.
(In Jerusalem Wednesday, the
organization of Georgian Jews in
Jerusalem sent a cable of encour-
Pg•ement to the telegraph office sit-
ins. The cable said "World Jewry
watches you with pride. Be strong.
We hope to see you soon in
Israel.")
More than 300 Jews demon-
strated outside Communist Party
headquarters in Tbilisi, capital
of the Soviet Georgian Republic,
protesting the Soviet authorities'
failure to process their applica-
lions for visas to go to Israel.
At a similar demonstration
earlier, more than 200 Tbilisi
Jews stood outside party head-
quarters and harassed personnel.
They dispersed when promised
that an official from Moscow would
come to deal with their cases.
The official who arrived last Fri-
day met with the Jews but failed
to satisfy them.
The Soviet Embassy here, the
scene of almost daily demonstra-
tions of sympathy with Soviet
Jews, informed police commis-
sioner, Sir John Waldron, that it
will receive deputations and peti-
tions two days a week, Mondays
and Thursdays.
Members of the Universities
Committee for Soviet .Jewry an-
nounced that they would picket the
Soviet Intourist office here Thurs-
day when the trial of Aleksander
Gorbach, a Jewish engineer, is
expected to open in Kharkov,
Ukraine.
Gorbach is charged with "en-
gaging in private enterprises"
considered detrimental to the
Soviet Union. He faces a prison
term of up to five years if con-
victed.
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dents here reported that it had
received a letter from Z2-year-old
Marina Kanzburg, a fourth-year
student at Kharkov University,
appealing for help to emigrate to
Israel.
The young woman wrote that she
was expelled from the university
and was jeered and insulted by
fellow students at a meeting of
the Komsomol — the Communist
Party Youth Organization — when
she asked for the character refer-
ence needed to obtain an exit
visa. She said the students peti-
tioned the Kharkov prosecutor to
start proceedings against her for
"Zionist propaganda."
Meanwhile, it was reported that
the older brother of Valeriy Kukui
testified against him at his trial
last month.
Jewish sources disclosed Valeriy
Kukui was tried June 15 and 16 in
Sverdlovsk and was sentenced
June 21 to three years in prison
for anti-Soviet "slander" involving
the distribution of petitions criti-
cizing the trials of Sr let Jews.
Kukui is 33 rs.nd has a 31-year-
old wife and a 6-year-old daughter.
The brother's name was not
immediately available, but he
was said by the sources to be a
Communist Party member who
was convinced that Valeriy's
activities constituted anti-Soviet
slander. The brother did not
actually attend the trial, because
of illness, but submitted a state-
ment.
Their mother, on the other hand,
defended Valeriy against the
charges leveled at him. At the
trial, the sources added, two per-
sons disavowed statements they
had signed that were critical of
Valeriy Kukui's activities. Lev
Blank said he had signed under
duress, and Mrs. Sophie Movsho-
vich said she had signed out of
fear.
Jewish sources here reported
that Hillel Zalmanovich Shur, the
Soviet Jewish engineer recently
sentenced in Kishinev to two years
in labor camp for alleged anti-
Soviet activities, is suffering from
heart disease and an ulcer.
Men's Clubs Federation Urges
Emigration Rights for Soviet Jews
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Soviet Union was asked by the
National Federation of Jewish
Men's Clubs to allow free emigra-
tion of its Jews and to end "show-
case trials" and other acts of
cultural repression and discrimina-
tion against its almost 3,000,000
Jews.
A resolution adopted by the fed-
eration's e x e c u t iv e committee,
urged the governments of the free
nations of the world, and the UN
to do their utmost to influence the
Soviet government to take such
actions.
Sens. Henry Jackson (D., Wash.)
and William Brock (R., Tenn.)
introduced a resolution calling on
the State Department to bring up
the issue of Russian violation of
the Declaration of Human Rights
in the General Assembly of the
United Nations.
The resolution, co-sponsored by
12 other senators so far, including
Humphrey, Goldwater and Mc-
Govern, asks the President to
utilize formal and informal con-
tacts with the Soviet Union to per-
suade the USSR to change its
limited emigration policies and to
allow free exercise of religion
within the USSR.
The program, partially funded
by a grant from the National Con-
ference on Soviet Jewry, began
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEW
8—Friday, July 16, 1971
Ex Polish Diplomat Among New Israel Arrival:
-
LOD—A fomer Polish diplomat,. insults" and "all forms of p
among the Jewish immigrants from sure" are applied by officials t
Eastern Europe who arrived at Lod stop application for exit visas.
Airport recently, told reporters
here that only a few thousand,
mostly elderly Jews remain in Po-
IF YOU TURN THE
land—and these face harassment
in any attempt to emigrate to Is-
rael.
UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T
Jan Shatzletsky, former career
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Embassy in Egypt until his dis-
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flight
with Kiev Jews on the same
who said the Jews are met "with
with a visit to Camp Galil, in
Ottsville, Pa. The camp is spon-
sored by Habonim, the Labor Zion-
ist youth movement.
June Saw Highest Emigration
of Jews From Soviet Union
MOSCOW — Diplomatic sources
said this week that the flow of
Jews from the Soviet Union to
Israel reached the highest rate
ever in June when more than 1,300
persons received exit visas, United
Press International reports.
Although the exact number was
not disclosed, the sources said it
will be higher than the 1,300
figure for April "and it may be
considerably higher than that."
April had seen the record total
since the establishment of Israel
in 1948.
Total figure for 1971, through
June, is more than 5,000 — more
than twice as many as in any
previous year.
Until this year, the emigration
rate of Jews ran about 100 a month
on the average. S'u d d e n 1 y, in
March, the figure shot up to 1,025
and in April to 1,300. It dropped
slightly in May to about 950.
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Leads to Resolution on
Soviets' Denial of Exit
The executive council of the 2,-
000,000-member United Church of
Christ, announced adoption of a
resolution condemning Communist
and other authoritarian govern-
ments for holding political prison-
ers, discriminating against persons
who dissent against governmental
policy and detaining ethnic and
religious groups who wish to emi-
grate.
The resolution was introduced at
the eighth General Synod of the
United Church of Christ, meeting
in Grand Rapids June 23-29, and
referred to the exceutive council.
The council acts as the synod in
the interim between synod meet-
ings.
"As Christians we value freedom
of expression and freedom of per-
son as basic human rights," the
resolution said. It went on to call
upon the government of the United
States to use its influence espe-
cially to persuade authoritarian
governments to grant permission
to emigrate to those who wish to
leave the countries.
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