Peres Charges Soviets Violate International
Postal Law in Halting Letters From Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Shimon ery 19 years ago "when the flower Vecherny Kharkov. The author of
Peres, minister of transportation of the (Soviet) Jewish culture was both attacks, Surhamed Soloviov,
and communications, accused the ruthlessly plucked by a cruel singled out Aleks'ander Gorbach
Tuesday as an example of an un-
Soviet authorities of breaking the despot (Stalin)."
He noted •that while the murder- worthy Soviet Jew who should be
international postal law by delib-
erately refusing to deliver letters ed cultural leaders were later re- denounced by every Soviet citizen.
from Israelis to relatives in the habilitated, Jewish culture in the Gorbach, a 35-year-old engineer,
Soviet Union, including invitations Soviet Union remains "a sham- was given a lenient penalty-400
bles." He elaborated: "No at- rubles ($444) — at his trial last
to join them in Israel.
Soviet law requires Soviet citi- tempt has been made to resusci- month for alleged participation in
zens who wish to migrate to Is- tate the Jewish culture, education, unlawful private undertaking. Gor-
rael to submit such invitations; press and theater that formerly bach is seeking to emigrate to Is-
without them they may not even had been the pride of the commu- rael.
Sylva Zalmanson Kuznetsov,
initiate the process of securing an nity."
the 27-year-old Soviet Jewish en-
exit visa.
Leningrad Jew to Undergo
gineer who was sentenced last
Peres told a meeting of his min- Show Trial, Sources Report
istry staff that complaints have
LONDON (JTA)—Boris Azerni- Dec. 15 to 10 years in prison for
been reaching the post office from kov, the 28-year-old Leningrad complicity in an alleged sky-
Israelis who have sent invitations Jewish dentist who was arrested jacking plot, is seriously ill in
to Soviet relatives, claiming they Aug. 10 after applying for immi- Potma prison in central Mor-
were not delivered. An investiga- gration to Israel, will be subjected dovia, Jewish sources in Riga
tion, Peres said, revealed that the to a Russian show trial, according reported.
Soviet authorities were confiscat- to Jewish sources in Russia.
The sources said that unless
ing the invitations on a large scale
Azernikov, who was detained on Mrs. Kuznetsov is released and
and as a matter of deliberate attempting to give the authorities given appropriate medical treat-
policy.
the required affidavit from abroad, ment, she may be in danger of
Even invitations sent by regis- is believed to be the first Soviet losing her life. Jews of Riga and
tered mail were not always de- Jew to be arrested solely for ap- other Soviet cities, it was said, are
livered.
plying for immigration to Israel. trying to persuade the authorities
(A similar charge was made by He was charged under articles 70 to free her.
Rep. Edward I. Koch, Democrat and 72 of the Code of the Russian
On Aug. 5, Moses I. Feuerstein,
of New York, in a letter to Post- Republic, pertaining to "anti-Soviet former president of the Union of
master General Winton M. Blount, agitation and propaganda" and Orthodox Jewish Congregations of
who said he would study the "anti-Soviet" organizational activi- America, reported in Boston that
matter.)
ty or membership. He was called the prisoner had become "almost
Authorities in the Soviet city
as a witness in the Kishinev trial totally deaf" in one ear, was "de-
of Tashkent, in Uzbekistan, are of nine Jews, but his testimony teriorating physically and mental-
thwarting the attempt by local was not used.
ly" and expected to survive under
Jews to build a new synagogue
Russian Jewish sources also re- her current conditions "only a few
within short walking distance ported that three of the Jews con- years at the most." Her sentence
of the observant members of victed in the second Leningrad ends June 15, 1980.
Tashkent's Jewish community,
In Copenhagen the logbooks of
trial—Solomon (Shlomo) Dreizner,
the American Jewish Conference
Grigory Ilya (Hillel) Butman and two Soviet warships now bear the
on Soviet Jewry reported.
Mikhail Korenblit — have been slogan "Let My People Go" in
The city's present synagogue transferred from their labor camp Russian, English and Hebrew;
was damaged by an earthquake to a Leningrad prison preparatory Stars of David; and the names of
and is not usable.
to their being ordered to testify many Jews and Israelis—if the
All churches and synagogues in against Azernikov. But the sources commanders decide not to tamper
the Soviet Union must be paid for said the three would probably re- with those documents.
by the congregations themselves, fuse to do so.
The two warships came to
and money was raised for a new
On June 15, 1971, a few hours Copenhagen for a courtesy visit
building. But Tashkent authorities, after the alleged Jewish attempt and the publie was invited to tour
the conference reported, feel that to skyjack a plane from Leningrad the vessels. Among the Danes who
the empty lot in the middle of to Israel, Azernikov's apartment accepted the Soviet invitations
town on which the Jews want to and office were searched, even were Jews and Israelis who listed
build is too close to a public though he was in Odessa at the not only their names in the log-
school. The authorities have sug- time. He was not arrested, but his books but also their protest over
gested that the new synagogue be fellow vacationer, 'Lev Naumo- Soviet mistreatment of its Jewish
built on the outskirts of the city. vich Yagman, was, and was sub- citizens.
The Jewish community objects sequently sentenced in Leningrad
to the site proposed by the au- to five years for alleged complicity
thorities because observant Jews, in the reputed plot.
most of whom are old, would be
Azernikov was later kept in an
unable to attend services on the isolation cell for three days and
Sabbath and holidays.
threatened with punishment
for assistance in obtaining
ranging from 10 years in prison
Ludmila Korenfeld, a former
a legal Abortion immediately
to death for treason. But the au-
student at the Moscow Insti-
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thorities could not link him to
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She was in her third year at rial in his home.
Azernikov testified at both Len-
the institute when she was ex-
pelled, Several months ago an- ingrad trials, both times defend-
other Jewish student, Marina ing the accused. He was called to
Kanzburg, was dismissed from the Kishinev, but his testimony was
State University of Kharkov on not used in the trial there. He
applied for emigration in June and
similar charges.
She was in her fourth year in was arrested Aug. 10, for no ap-
the philology department. Both parent reason other than his ap-
students are awaiting approval 9f plication and, according to sources,
their applications for immigration in reprisal for his trial testimony.
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Sources said Azernikov's arrest
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harsher
Both have been elected mem-
anti-Jewish policy by the Soviet
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Meanwhile, two Jews are stag-
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USSR want out, to join their fami- outside the Riga Ovir office since
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they call Ovir's refusal to grant
make a new start."
Addressing the subcommission, them visas to Israel.
In Kharkov, the Ukraine, Tues-
which has just established machin-
ery for communications on viola- day, Soviet Jews were assailed
tions of human rights, Barmore for the second time in recent
deplored the lack of such machin- weeks in the evening newspaper
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