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Profiles of USSR AJCommittee Calls for Aid to E. Pakistani Victims
NEW YORK — Philip E. Hoff- all the peoples of the world to in- forts to alleviate the suffering, the
Prisoners Noted
man, president of the American sure that the principles of human illness, and the disease which are
Jewish
has issued a rights guaranteed in the Charter the inevitable concomitants of
in POTMA Booklet statement Committee,
deploring the bloodshed of the United Nations are ob- warfare.
To implement a call to action
on behalf of Prisoners of Consci-
ence serving sentences in the So-
viet penal labor camps, the Union
of Councils for Soviet Jews has
published a 14-page booklet titled
POTMA (a notorious camp area
in Mordovia, some 280 miles south-
east of Moscow). Dr. Louis Rosen-
blum of Cleveland, chairman of
the union, is the editor of the
booklet.
The Union of Councils for Soviet
Jews has 15 member councils
in the United States and Canada.
and open conflict in East Pakistan served.
"As Jews," he said, "we hold
and calling for "a determined ef-
"We are aware," he stated, "that the sacredness of human life to
fort by the United Nations and by there are conflicting claims in the be paramount, and call on all men
area, claims of national self-de- who seek justice—statesmen, reli-
termination, of territorial integrity, gious leaders and common folk
Jackson Guest Speaker
of freedom from oppression. The alike—to direct their best efforts
at Annual ZOA Dinner
claims on both sides are grounded to ending the conflict and prevent-
NEW YORK — Sen. Henry M. on legal and moral principles. The ing its escalation."
Jackson will be guest speaker at issues do not lend themselves to
the Zionist Organization of Amer- simple statements of where justice
ica's annual dinner Dec. 12 at the lies.
New York Hilton.
"But in the concern for these
Jackson, who was invited to ad- claims, the overriding issus of hu-
dress the dinner prior to the an- man rights must not be overlooked.
nouncement as a candidate for the These are human beings — men,
Democratic nomination for Presi- women and children—who are in
dent, will deliver a major policy the midst of gunfire. Their needs
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POTMA presents profiles of
many of the prisoners; supple-
mentary instructions for sending
mail and packages to the prisoners
and their families; brief back-
ground information about the re-
pression of Jews in the Soviet
Union — the "show" trails, the
charges of "political" crimes; a
definition of "strict" and "special"
regime, to which most of the pris-
oners have been condemned; the THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
semi-starvation diet in these re-
Friday, December 10, 1971-3
gimes—"worked out on scientific
principles to be just enough to
keep you from dying off."
Dr. Rosenblum points out, "And
when Ruth Aleksandrovich and
Sylva Zalmanson could not deliver
the high production 'norm' de-
manded of them, they were given
only one-half of the standard semi-
starvation food ration . . . Perhaps
this is the type of situation to
which Dostoevsky referred when
he said, 'The degree of civilization
in a society may be judged by en-
tering its prisons.' "
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