THE DETROIT JEWISH- NEWS
36—Friday, October 8, 1971

Librarian's Sentence Upheld; Stays in Soviet Prison_

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against restrictions on Soviet
Jewish life.
The Kiev judge upheld the Pa-
latnik sentence:
The 35-year-old prisoner was
not in court to hear the decision;

she is in 'prison in Odessa, ex-
Boris Azernikov, a Jewish dent-
pecting to be sent to a detention ist, will go on trial in mid-October
camp. She was sentenced June for alleged anti-state activities.
24, but her two-year term dates Azernikov has been linked by So-
from her arrest in December 1970. viet authorities to 'a group of Jews
Ruth Aleksandrovich, the 2A1- in Leningrad who organized illegal
year-old Jewish nurse from Riga, Hebrew study groups and has also
Latvia, was scheduled to be re- been called as a witness in politi-
leased from her Mordovian prison cal trials ;orJews.
cell Thursday. She will return to
He' was arrested several times,
Colored Movies
hometown and remain under most recently two months ago and
400 ft.—$165 Comp. her
the supervision of the secret po- is presently in jail. Azernikov has
Weddings, Bar Misses
lice (KGB), sources here •said.
applied for an exit visa to emigrate
and other occasions
They said she will have to report to Israel. His trial may be held in
a police station every day and Leningrad.
Frank's.S.tudio 474-7768 to
that her movements will be re-_
Azernikov is believed to be the
so . stricted as to time and distance first Soviet Jew to be arrested
from her home.
solely for applying for immigra-
.. _ISRAEL.
Miss Aleksandrovich's fiance, tion to Israel.
DECLARATION OF : Isaiah
Averbuch, went to Potma
Nine Sverdlovsk Jews have
INDEPENDENCE
prison
to bring her home. The
disclosed the contents of a letter
*nem =noes 64W: This lams. dominant in
Hebrew :with Ow English herniation new avail,
prisoner's mother and brother
addressed to the head -of the
aide an gestuleop anhonent paper. Si. 14.• by,
are in Israel; her father stayed
Soviet secret police, the KGB.
idr. SWUM intAhlhad. •
behind to await her release.
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The nine signers included Ela
AND FOR THE HEBREW STUDENT.
A group of Jewish women in Kukui, wife - of Valery Kukui,
$.A
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poiiimid. 5 for $9.00. the Soviet Union have begged au- whose appeal from a three-year
NOOSE OF NINA
thorities to allow their, children to prison term was turned down on
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emigrate to Israel though they Sept. 12 by the Supreme Court of
themselves have been denied visas. the Russian Soviet Republic. Ku-
The appeal, the second in recent kui was- convicted on June 15 of
For an Evening of
months, was disclosed in Brussels "anti-Soviet activity."
Superb Entertainment . . .
at a meeting of Jewish women's
The letter to Yuri Andropov
For Your Bar Mitzva or
organizations sponsored by the lo- dared that "we live In an atmos-
Weddings, etc. . . .
cal chapter of WIZO.
phere of fear, suspicion, ridicule
The Times of London repoited and intimidation, but you'ought to
MORI LITTLE
that there had been a 1,000 per know that they cannot break us.
AND HIS
cent jumP-oetering the past two We join our brethren in Georgia,
ORCHESTRA
months in the number of Jews who proclaimed not long ago 'Is-
from the Geeorgian Soviet Repub- rael or death.' "
356-4745
lic permitted to leave.
It was also reported that 54
The Times quoted Jewis
Riga Jews wrote on Sept. 19 to
sources as asserting that officials the central committee of the
were now providing about 60 exit Communist Party of Soviet Lat-
visas each month to families ap-
asking for an interview in
plying for permission to emigrate via,
connection with their applica-
to Israel.
tions to emigrate to Israel.
(Sources said that prior to the
They reportedly were still waiting
demonstrations at the Soviet
Georgian central offices, only five for the interview but their hopes
to six families were being given were understood to have been
raised by the interview five Jews
exit visas each month.)
had with Soviet and Communist
About 100 Vilna Jews have been
staging daily sit-ins at Lithu- Party officials at the party's cen-
Phone
anian Communist Party head- tral committee headquarters on
549-7170
quarters since last week to back Sept. 20 in Moscow.
up their demands for a meeting
Sources reported that Yitzhak
with officials of the Central Schlaferman, a Kharkov electri-
Committee to discuss their emi- cian, applied six . m6nths ago for
gration rights, the Jewish Tele- an exit visa for Israel and that
graphic Agency learned.
his application was rejected and
The Jews were promised Sept. he was fired from his job.
30 that a five-member delegation
On Sept. 18, police came to his
would be received by Sunday, but home and notified him that as
the meeting failed to materialize. "an idler and a parasite," he had
as always fine
been ordered sent to a place of
quality photography
forced labor. He is now in an un-
BY-POPULAR DEMAND!
Merrillwcod Bldg. Mall
skilled job outside of Kharkov de-
Now Booking .. .
Birmingham
spite -the great demand for elec-
tricians.
251 Merrill, cor. Woodward
The sources also released the
sit - kis Orchestra
647-5730
text of a letter to Communist
851-611$
Party chief Leonid Brezhnev from
Pavel Goldstein, a Moscow Jew,
who wrote: "There is no life for
me outside the holy land. But I
Your Party Lives Forever
am also voicing the sentiments
With Fine Photography
of countless other Jews when - I
tell you that there is a great hatred
against all those Jews who have
'applied for exit visas to go to
Israel."
He mentioned a number of
Jewish activists who had 'been
sent to prison in recent months
who "suffer agonies in labor
camps merely because they ex-
pressed a desire to go to Israel."
Some 2,500 people from several
Soviet cities gathered at Bahl Yar,
outside of Kiev, to memorialize the
100,000 people—most of them Jews
—who were massacred there by the
Nazis 30 years ago.
In a phone call, Boris Krasny,
a 37-year-old Soviet-Jewish engi-
neer who helped organize the me-
mortal, said that "this was the
first gathering which can be called
a national or an all-Soviet Union
gathering of Jews. We had dele-
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near Vilna in Lithuania, where
the Nazis carried out other mass
executions.
Mrs. - Barbara Oberman, speak:.
ing fOr the United World Com-
mittee for the Repatriation of So-
viet Jews, said a vigil for Soviet
Jewry will be held throughout the
Western world Nov. 7, the 54th
anniversary of the Russian Revo:
lution.
Council of Churches Pledges
Support for Israel, Soviet Jews
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Council of ChUrches of Greater
Washington, in a letter of greet-
ings for the High Holidays, ex-
pressed support for their efforts
to help Israel and to alleviate the
plight of Soviet Jewry.
The coordinating - agency for
Protestant congregations said in
its letter made public by the Jew-
ish Community Councll of Greater
Washington: "We join with you,
and pledge our support to your
efforts in your struggle on behalf
of your people in the Soviet Union
add in . the Middle East."
The Church Council's letter was
signed by Arnol F. Keller Jr.;
president, and Charles L. Warren,
executive director of the Council.
Organized Labor Joins Campaign
for Yiddish Broadcasts to USSR
BOSTON (JTA)—Pressures to
get the United States Information
Agency to begin broadcasting in
Yiddish to the Soviet Union over
the Voice of America mounted as
a result of a campaign inaugurated
by the Jewish Labor Committee
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