Kishinei 9 Sent to Forced Labor Camp in Mordavia, Russia
current wave of anti-Jewish trials. left behind photographs of Benito
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We also found a growing inclina- A copy of the letter was sent to the Bruchbein,. who was • arrested in
tion on their part to take pragma- Soviet government newspaper Iz- Moscow last month after he ap-
tically into account requests of vestia, which did not publish it, plied for an emigration visa to go
believers. We sensed a greater the sources said. The signers of the to Israel.
confidence among the religious
groups in their dealings with one
another and with their government.
There was a breakdown of their
previous sense of isolation from
other groups in the Soviet Union
and throughout the world."
The delegation said they were
"encouraged" by the Soviet gov-
letter reportedly expressed their
determination to emigrate to Israel,
which they referred to as their
"homeland." The signers were
Vladimir Aks, Vladimir Markman,
Yuli Koshrovsky, Ylya Voitovetski
and Mrs. Ella Kukui. Mrs. Kukui's
husband, Valeriy, was recently sen-
tenced to three years in prison for
anti-Soviet "slander" involving the
distribution of petitions criticizing
the political trials of Jews. The
letter referred to the trials as an
attempt to intimidate Jews and
stop the revival of Jewish national
feelings in Russia.
ernment's permission for several
Jewish students to study at the
rabbinical seminary in Budapest,
Hungary. Such schools do not exist
in the USSR. They added, however,
"We realize that this arrangement
is at best a temporary palliative
but it could be a start toward the Moscow Police Nab Newsmen
renewal of Jewish spiritual leader- and Jews They Talked With;
State Dept. Won't Protest
ship."
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The State
The nine Jews sentenced in
Kishinev on June 30 for alleged Department said it would not pro-
anti-Soviet agitation and complic- test to Soviet authorities regard-
ity in an alleged skyjacking plot. ing police actions against two
have been sent to a forced-labor American correspondents on suc-
camp in Mordovia, in central cessive days in Moscow while they
Russia, it was reported here by were meeting with unnamed Soviet
Jews. The correspondents were
reliable Jewish sources.
The camp is in the same region James Peiport of the Associated
as Potma prison, to which five Press and James Yuenger of the
of the Jews convicted in the first Chicago Tribune. Inquiries by the
Leningrad trial and two of those Jewish Telegraphic Agency indi-
convicted in Riga were sent earlier cated that neither the AP nor the
Tribune planned to lodge protests.
this month.
According to reports from Mos-
The Kishinev prisoners are
David Iserovich Chernoglaz, who cow, a plainclothes policeman
received a five-year sentence; broke into a conversation on Gorky
Anatoly Moiseyevich Goldfeld, four St. July 19 between Peiport and a
years; Hillel Zalmonovich Shur, Soviet Jew. They flashed a red
Aleksander Galperin, Abraham card and ordered Peiport to leave.
Trakhtenberg, Semeon Abramovich The plainclothesman seized the
Levit, Arkady Voloshin and Gari Jew by his arms and said "come
Kirshner, two years each; and newsman that the matter was none
David Rabinovich, one year. with me." He told the American
The Leningrad prisoners re- of his business. Yuenger was pick-
portedly include Ruth Aleksan- ed up by Moscow police and de-
drovich, 24-year-old nurse who tained for 10 minutes at the police
stood trial in Riga. All seven station after he tried to meet a
were said to have spent three Soviet Jew who was described as
weeks in a prison in Pskov be- j "an informant." The Jew was also
fore being sent to Potma.
taken to the police station but was
The prisoners from Leningrad, kept apart from Yuenger. State
who were convicted for allegedly Department spokesman Charles
plotting to hijack a Soviet air- Bray said that a report on the
liner in June 1970, were identi- Peiport incident was received
fied by the sources as Leib from the U. S. Embassy in Mos-
Khanokh, Anatoly . Altman, Isak cow but none on Yuenger's deten-
Zalmanson, Silva Zalmanson Kuz- tion.
netzov and Mendel Bodnia. The American-Jewish Tourists
second prisoner from Riga is Mik- Tell of Ouster From USSR
LONDON (JTA)—Two Ameri-
hail Shepshelovich.
. Mrs. R i v k a Aleksandrovich, can Jewish tourists who arrived
mother of Ruth, claimed earlier here from the Soviet Union told
that her daughter had been sent the JTA that they were ousted by
to the Potma camp in mid-June. Soviet authorities and forced to
Sources here said she was appar- leave the USSR four days before
ently also held at the Pskov prison. their 22-day tour was to end. Irv-
According to Jewish sources, five ing Silverman, 51, of Roslyn, N. Y.,
Ukrainian Jews from Sverdlovsk publisher of "The Knitting Times,"
signed a letter to Soviet Commu- and Leonard Shuster, 35, a busi-
nist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev nessman from Winnwood, Pa., said
protesting what they called the they were accused by Soviet au-
thorities of "anti-Soviet activities"
but were not permitted to confront
their accusers. They said they had
itutoraNG
visited Moscow, Tbilisi, Yalta,
Odessa and Kiev and were about
to go to Leningrad when they were
summoned to the Intourist office
in Kiev and ordered to leave the
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remain. Their wives left with
them. Silverman and Shuster said
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6—Friday, July 30, 1971
Three Jews were arrested in
Moscow Monday while trying to
meet with Western newsmen, it
was reported here Tuesday. Two
Jews were arrested, according to
the report, as they were about to
enter the car of an American cor-
respondent. The third was seized
by police while talking to two
British journalists. Later he phoned
them to say he had been released,
sources reported.
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Immigrant Families From
Soviet Georgia
Sit - In
End Their 3 - Day
at Lydda Airport
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Four Rus-
sian Jewish families from the
Georgian Republic Monday ended
a sit-in at Lydda Airport which
they began on their arrival. last
Friday in protest against the hous-
ing allocated to them by the ab-
sorption ministry. The families
have gone to live with relatives
pending a decision by the ministry.
.(Press reports that Soviet authori-
-ties have called a sudden halt to
Jewish emigration were question-
ed by reliable Jewish sources in
New York. The sources, which
have provided accurate informa-..
tion on developments in the So-
viet Union hitherto, told the JTA
that the report by Los Angeles
Times correspondent Richard Res-
ton from Moscow was not correct.
Reston said that only 180 Jews
left the USSR during the first
week of July and that there has
been virtually no movement at all
since then. He noted that in con-
trast, from March through June,
Soviet authorities were permitting
an average of 1,000 Jews a month
to leave.)
Another planeload of Jewish im-
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