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Soviet Jews
LONDON (JTA) = Boris Aier-
nikciv, a Jewish dentist from Len-
ingrad, will go on trial next month,
according to. Jewish sources in
Russia. Azernikov was arrested
after he applied for a visa to leave
the Soviet Union and settle in
Israel.. According to the sources,
two - Jews convicted at the second
/- Leningrad -trial--MichaeI_Kornblitt
and Hillel Butrnan—will appear as
prosecution witnesses but are not
expected to testify against Azerni-
kov.
Both have been kept in a Lenin-
grad prison while their codefen-
dants were sent to a labor camp
in Moldavia. Jewish sources re-
port that relatives of the prisoners
have been permitted to visit them
at the camp.
According to Jewish sources,
Silva Zafirsanson-Kuznetzov, one of
the 12 Jews convicted in the first
Leningrad hijack trial in December
1970, is suffering from progres-
sive deafness which cannot'.-be
treated at the labor camps where
she is- incarcerated. Her general
health continues to decline and her
condition. is serious, the - sources
reported.
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Large crowds of young, people
- gathered ,eatddt syragogues
Moscow, Leningrad,. Rigs, Hier emigrate. The call: was initiated
and Wei -during Rosh 'Nashua by Slight !it friend, Avraharif Shif-
services yuesday. According to man, a 47 - year-old ' *God •culptor
Jewish- sources,. they slated they who left :Russia for Israel a year
bad' not come to pray but to
identify themselves with the Jew-
-• When 3MMwashed about his
ish people and the Jewish state.
own 84-yeierOld- g h t er,
Laden,' Who wits- -Mit anowet. to -
Jewish sources in Russia told
leave -Russia: with him-end IS
the JTA that a large number of
still
- inMoscow, Siepalr'said abe
new year greeting messages from
-is-
waiting 'for permistion to end;
Soviet Jews to relatives and friends
in Israel were not dispatched' by
Slepak did.- however. have some
Soviet postal authorities.
The authorities also withheld good news. He said • that another
prominent Jewish -hetivist, Alexan-
mailing of collective greetings to
prominent Israeli personalities- and der .Pathich,' a.'35-year-old dentist,
institutions.
Edvard Kuznetzov, a. Central
figure in the ;first Leningrad trial
who was sentenced to death and
then had the sentence commuted
to life imprisonment, has been
transferred to a solitary confine-
ment cell in the notorious Potma
Prisoner Camp No. 10 in-Central
Mordovia, it was reported in Tel
Aviv.
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The information came via-a tele - tion that Soviet authorities- have Oiet Preinier Alexsei Kosigin over
2am convinced,!!
phone conversation with an unid- refused to -give- Slepak an en- the- denial of an exitpermit.
_ writte t!that,thecititrgez:-.0..it
entified source on_Moscow:Kuiriet- gineer and -- foriner , physicist; a
Other settrics rePortidthat Mik Soviet activity against . those . seek
ing pitria
riv was said to have been placed visa because 'he used to work on hail, Alexandrovitr, - a :ainger..
colons.
in a small cell in the camp which secret government science proj- cantor in Moscow, _had
Meanwhile, 29-Minsk, Jeini,
High
is infamous for its treatment of
Holiday appearance -canceled be- sent a :petition, to-Soviet Preddent
its"inmates. No one is permitted
Shifmen, whohad4Dien a liw- :cause- of his request for emigre- Muds' - rodgoinkrin-twhich .: they--
to visit Kuznetzov.
"demand the,buniediiito: Metal of
per, was arrested for Zionist •ac-
.
The prisoner's mother was re
tivities during , the early 19501
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wee'te
piFiitee
triaf
ti t;i!re
i t
ewi,
::ito
.dizage
i.
- -Alexandrovitz reportedly -wrote th
ported to have suffered a nervous and: es sentenced to death.
letters of protest to. the- Soviet
breakdown= and placed under care.
The sentence was cOMmuted to denies Pravda- and Iriestin in
Meanwhile, a high-ranking Com- 25 years in prison and be *as 're, which he stated that he would not It bore-: tho' Minns ant. complete
munist :Party- official 'Mid a dele- leased in 1963 after serving ,10 be deterred from going to IsraeL addressei of
Jews,' and a notitiontkat copy
gation of 70 Soviet Jews Monday years.
The letters ,were not published.
had - been sent : to the taPreme
that the Soviet Union- would suffer
He was prohibited from practicf
Mendelevich of.: Riga, 'Court of the '-ifordmilan
Soviet.
a -"brain drain" if it allowed Un- ing law after his release. He :de- the Abraham
,Yosif
-Men-
elderly_
father
"-of
restricted emigration to Israel:
veloped gangrene in his - right delevich, - one of-the defendants:in Socialist ilopublic:
Other Jews made available to leg while in damp prison-camp the first Leningrad trial,: is seri;
newsmen"an 'emigration petition and it had to be amputated.--::-
ously RI- in a Riga hospital as BBC -P*001i
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Signed by the heads of. more than
He is visiting the United States result of the- recent attack on him;
1,000 Soviet- Jewish families. It on behalf of Maoz (Fortress), an Jewish sources reported. : - No More Doaht on -"
was - addresied to the United:Na- Israeli organization of recently ar-
There have been,.differing- re-
tions and the Kremlin.
rived Sia4t emigres, iF
ports on the site and details of SOyiefleiva;.;:Thight
Vladimir Slepak,-a Soviet Jewish - The leaders /of nine national the- assaulton . the elderly Jew.
The
activist who has been trying for Jewish women's organizations, rep-
The assailant was arrested _-but National Broadcasting, Co has; in
several years -to get -permission resenting More than a million imniediately_
released: Only after dicated it wilt be Inaii76743reful
to leave the. Soviet Union, told a members, met at , the State Depart rePeated protests to police was
it s
use of the
radio audience in.Philadelphia, via went - with Richard Davies, deputy-
arrested ; and he Ia. no* ward .- ."alleged"-= - *ithreference
a telephone call from Moscow, that assistant- seiretary for European assailant
cliseriinination:7"againtt;lew-S--inthO
in CuStedY. - .
it is now very difficulkfor Moscow affairs, Thursday, to ask U.S. '-
Soviet--'Unio n -
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Jews to get exit yisas.
tercession with Soviet' authorit.
in a letter to H.
He Said only one or two visas on behalfof Jewish- women prison- Soviet, Physicist Asks
SChenCe,•,(Deni4 iNew:.-Itork);
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are grimted- eaCh month. hi Mus- ers in the USSR
Imprisoned had complained :ebtint: the , usage of
covite Jews-, though Many want to
At tith name time,, a similar .: PardOn-
has been granted permission to
leaVe for :Israel. with his -family.
Stillman told:the Jewish Tele--
graphic "Agency -that he believes
that Pallach, who has been trying
to get a visa for more than five
years, was-finally granted one he-
cause., he' has been. very active
recently, openly criticizing the gov-
ernment. and communicating with
people abroad.
Shifman said there is speeilla-
appeal- On Immaniterina grounds
was to be made-by Jenvish_wons
en leaderd
Israel and
other Countries. it Was announced
Jews-Seeking Via*.
by Mrs. Charles Sallow. of gilkits;
dale, N.T., chairman iftheLea
—d--
ership Conference of,-- National
Jewish *Glen's Organizations.
Mrs. Snitow- said that -althoigh
the women's , appeal: would be -Ad-
dressed to- "all Jewish_prisonere
of conscience in the .Soviet Union,"
it would have particular reference
to women prisoners, some of whom
have been reported sericiusly .
They include Ruth Alexandrovich,
Sylva Zalmanson„ Raiza Palatni•
and Lila Ontman.
Hearings on the appeal Of Roiza
Palatnik will "probably" take
*place at the end of this_ month
in Kiev. The 36-year-old l Odessa
librarian was sentenced June 28
to two years in a regular prison
camp. Miss Palatnik,_ who applied
for an exit visa to go to Israel, was
jailed last December on charges
of "slander against the Soviet
Union."
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.Cindidze; . a ' . distinguished
viet physicist and founder 0 the
dissident Soviet Committee en Hu
man Jlights, haa.ealled - •on the
Presidium- - - of -- .the, :SuprenUrSoviet
to.-pardon all.-JeWs imprisoned- for
wanting to go , to. Israel - and "an
end to all peraecution of Jewaseek:'.
ing repatriation.7:,
appeal was contained;
letter addressed to the president
tie Supreme Soviet,-- ..; dated May
20,, -1971, and - published in trans--
lation in-the Sept. -18 'edition -pt
the , Siturday _ Review;
Also- published' was an endorse-
ment of Chilidze's letter by two
affiliate
4n-,Witabingtoiii .1* ,Iti,Te,
Frank 3'espbnded
40nietal.'
instructor to the entire NBC=staff
Owtheliseot in agedlis i taxi- way.
-`best naying- ,:nilibbigi- it - Waist
casting doubt where noose - should
- ; Frank addedin his Ietter, which
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the :Congressman , - Mad& alienable
to the '1641.41:Telgraphic- - Ageney,
that he did, not hear-the specific
Scheuer had referred; ,."hut I - ,hive
heard -o hers:" t
colleagues and, - cofounders of the - :7 Newipapera - - ;and -newar-agencies
Committee on Human Rights, A. - other- , than; Nitta „have.•.-used-
Saktarov and A. Tverdokblebov: leged"- the "it -is
phrase-
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All are non-Jews.
Chalidze's letter contained a
staunch defense of Zionism; which,
the = writer noted, was portrayed
by the Soviet Press:as a reaction
cry "(practicilly fascist) political
trend.' Yet, - the letter: went - On,
"Zionism-is no inorelhan -ihe idea
of Jewish statehood, and one can
only admire-the persistence of an
ancient and persecuted people,
who in very difficult conditions.
-have resurrected a long: vanished
'state:. is - Precisely such rebirth
and eliminationof =the tragic con-
sequences- of dispersion for- the
Jewish people that- constitutes the
goal of Zionism.
-"Zionism is portrayed, in the ,
Press as 'an anti-Colioninnist and
anti-Soviet trend, :yet the - con
cerns of Zionism are- entirely.
national." Chalidze wrote "Even"
more ridimilon.s is the statement '
that _those Sodea-cithena who
wish to be repatriated lire - deli-
beratei,r_ unfriendly toward the
Soviet system:
"Some authorities try -to progg
this by holding trials--for exam-
ology: when reporting-the circum-
'stences of' -Jews trying to emigrate
_from - theSOviet .
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Jews ShoOld Be Able
to- Leave USSR—Thant
The Supreme Court of the
Russian Soviet Republic has
"turned- down an appeal by Val-
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) - —
eriy Bakal.
Secretary- General, U 7-Thent said
. The court, which postponed the
that an ideal 'society, - every
appeal hearing list -week for two
body.- . should :lave --- -the tight , to
days because - the chief prosetu,
leave the country in which he does: .
return -to :
tor was ill, heard the appeal last
not want
Friday. and -_ccmfirmed the three.
a_ tountryl_frOm _whichhe- emigrat. - - .,
year sentence handed down on
ed,- - as stipulated. by- the Univer-.
June 15. Kukui was arrested last
sal Declaration_on -Hunian Rights:-
March and - charged with alleged
"So," ;* Thant :observed, "in in_
"anti-Soviet activity."
ideal 'society, I' think- that those-
It Was - reported Kukui's lawyer
citinms of Jewish faith who want
,implied during the .bearing that
to .leave- should-- be permitted to
Kukui committed a crime but
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leave."
asked for- a lesser sentence..-
The:secretary-general added,
A Jewish' engineer froni Vilna,
that "at the sanietimei.the yeti-
Binyamin Stitein, sent back to Sov-
eiltinians been ref'.-.
iet authorities all the .medals and
i ngees for „more. than-20 Wain.
decorations be received for his
:should be allowed_ tiareturn to _
The Israel Government Coins and Medals Corp. announces the service in the Red Army during
=their'-homes" la--laanaL
issue of a special commemorative coin by the -Bank.of Israeli dedi- World - War 1If becatise authorities
Thant
-this - `51tmeto bserve-
cated to the "Struggle- for Freedom" of Russian Jews. This special rejected his family's third -applica-
-izie:anneal;. Pre-Genera' .1
lion
tion for permission to- emigrate to ple In Leningrad and in Riga= Asseinbly- session
item will be promoted throughout the U.S. by the American Jewish
Israel- - - '
Conference on Soviet Jewry, .which- has -given its spenstirship to the
bringing charges of: anti-Soviet ac-
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isatiAlight of his forth4.
, The High Medal of the Red --CoM tivities against . Jews whose_ only eneetiis
sale of the coin among members of American Jewish. organizations._
coming tetireinent.
The legal tender coin, with a face value of- IL 10, is struck in silver queror was one -of -the -medals re- aim was to protest against the' uP-
s am bas=:
in regular and proof condition, by the Government Mint in Jerusalem. turned by the 504 year-old engineer Iawful'refusals to issue them visas sector ti
- took , sharp .isstie
The gold coin (proof .only), with a denomination of . IL'50, will be - following this most recent rejec- for repatriation."
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With...Thint's..4tatenient;..
issued at a later date. -A brochure containing.amessage from -Prime tion of applications by himself, his -Chalidze- said-- that in his- efforts
that'. "there - -can
wife and his, two daughters --- to study- hiiman rights An the to," ne- cemPerisohl"ot
Minister Golda Melt, a transcript of one of' the. many ."FMedont
,:betWenW, the
Yuri 'Bilevsky,' a violinist, with viet Union he found-it his duty prOblem:ntrthelSoViet. Jews and:
Letters"- addressed by ROSSiall Jews to•the Soviet premier, and, back;
the Moscow Philharmonic — Oiclies- "to give intellectual- assistanee , to rite question aE -thee
ground information pertaining' to-the struggle of Soviet Jars Will be
available with the. coin. The publication also -contains a section on - tra, lost- his job -because-he de-
who desire repatriation!! refugees. Otioiet leis - king - to unite
timperiecution of Jews in Arab states. Information may be obtained . manded the right to emigrate to He said he was fannliar - with _their fainillar and their people
from Government of Israel, Coins and Medals Dept.,- 850 Third; Israel,_- Jerusalem indict. reported. 'Problems and principlei;* the main
Ittritel,'!:?---Toktioli-=. s - tated, I: while
The report did not :.state: the ona_of 'Which-was .unoninterfeitmen
NeW York ,10022.
`Let My People Go'
Israel Coin Dedicated to Soviet Jewry
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source od theinformition,H.
TIN DETROIT JEWISH NEWS ad that Bliershy, protested1d
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—td go -to israel;"
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