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May 19, 1972 - Image 20

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1972-05-19

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Nixon Expected to Raise Soviet Jewry at Summit

(Continued from Page 11

lion without formal charges against

Deputy Secretary of State for hem.
Jews in six small towns of' the
European Affairs Richard
T.
Carpathian region of the Ukraine
Davies, representing the adminis-
have organized memorial serv-
tration, assured the assembly-
ices and will say kadish twice
that Nixon is being kept inform-
a
day until May 20 in memory
ell about the most recent wave
of
those Jews killed by the Nazis
of anti-Jewish activity in the
during World War 11. the Nation-
Soviet Union. Davies, in response
at Conference on Soviet J ewry
to specific questions about what
reported.
Nixon would do. indicated that
The conference also learned that
"yqur concern would be repre -
two weeks ago, Raiza Palatnik had
!ten ted in the appropriate way in
Moscow" especially in light of been placed in a punshment cell
f or a seven - day period for re-
recent harassment of scores a
fusing to work during "subbotnik"
Jewish delis fists prior to the U.S.-
—a period when Soviet citizens are
USSR summit meeting.
supposed to volunteer to work with-
"A %Slav Book of Exodus -
writ- out pay.
Len by Sov iet Jews and recently
Mrs Faye I.. Schenk, president
smuggled out of the Soviet Union of ltadassah. has urged an official
was risen to Davies by Maass, to of the World Health Organization
be delisered to Secretary' of State and the Soviet minister of health

William P Rogers. The book docu- to intervene on behalf of Paulina
merits the harassments and onpres- Eppel:nail, the head of pharma-
mon of Sostet Jews during 197172. cology at the Leningrad Hospital

Jerry Goodman, NCSJ executive w-ho has applied for an exit visa
stated that this''White for herself and her 9- year-old
Rook - contains - new informAtion daughter According to Mrs.

never before disclosed and is the Schenk. the Soviet Jewish pharma-
best collection of samizdat (under- cologist was "strictly nonpolitical''
ground literatures to have come out until 14 months ago. She was

of the Soviet Union from the Jew' neither a Zionist nor a member of
ish artistst movement " The names the Communist Party. Then her

of the compders of the hook were husband, Michael, a university lee-
w'Ithhe'd for security purposes. Curer in mathematics, attended an
In remark, prenared for deliv- academic conference in Sweden
en, to the assembly.
Svc- and from there he fled to Israel.
rholski .1 founder of the Jewish
Through correspondence and tele-
a et; s ist enticement in the Soviet phinte communications Mrs. Ep
Union ;oat chairman of a newly pelman has told her husband, who
created con) in titre of former So- is presently in the United States
set arils fists in Israel, stressed under the auspice's of the National
the importance of Nixon's trip to Conference on Soviet Jewry, that
Moscow as seen by Soviet Jews. she will soon go on a hunger,strike
Svechmski. who is in regular con - Several days ago, Michael asked
tact with former colleagues in the Mrs. Schenk for help.
USSR, relayed an urgent appeal
Mrs. Schenk responded by ap-
from Jews in Moscow who con- pealing to Dr. M. G. Candau, di-
sider Nixon's trip the single most rector-general of WHO in Geneva,
important opportunity for a re- and to Boris V. Petrovski, Soviet
dress of present Soviet policy to-
minister of health in Aloscow. Ad-
ward is Jewish minority
ditional cables urging Petrovski
to
intercede on humanitarian
Rep. Jack E. Kemo (R., N.Y.),
grounds were sent by Dr. George
announced that a petition formu-
B. Koelle, vice president of the
lated to the NUSJ, addressed to
International Union of Pharmacol-
Nixon. and urging the President
to plai e Soviet Jewry on the
ogy. and Dr. Alfred Gillman,
chairman, department of pharma-
agenda for his Moscow talks,
cology. Albert Einstein College of
was signed by 113 members of
Medicine.
oneres• from almost every - state
Boris Kogen, a lawyer and
in the 1 nion. .4, similar petition
Jewish activist in Moscow, has
signed hs all participants in the
signed a statement—reputedly
assembly. and representing chse
In 1.1on.11011 sienatures. was pre-
under duress — that he will not
sentc,1 to Davies.
take part in any "antisocial
A
fele .tatotri front
actieities," Jewish sources said.
th- Zionist
ni
In
The statemen t read: "I
of America prt,emed
have acted and shall act in full
a pet t,n with more than 60.01 re
, o,ttt.it it t• -,
accordance
with the Soviet Con-
to
1 I•onard
Garment,
s pe,
stitution." Kogen was told he'
e.msaltant
to
President
could get up to three years' im-
Nixhm that the Presiden:
rrisonment for "insubordination
take up the "repatriation" of Soy let
and infringenient of traffic."
Jews to Israel during his meeting
In an exyression of - support and
Ile tea:, taken to a police station
solutard% for those Jews in the by a militia sergeant who came to
Soviet I nion who are presentl%
his home, and under the circum-
being harassed." the National Con-
stances felt forced to sign. the
ference on Soviet Jewry asked lift sources said They quoted Bogen
persons — two (ruin each of its 34 as telling them later: "We hope
constituent organizations—to stage that President Nixon's visit will
a 24 hour vigil outside the Soviet ease our situation, which is getting
Embassy in Washington
worse day by day."
(Another group of Jewish emi-
The sources also said that five
gres from the Soviet Union arrived other Jew ish activists were taken
in Tel Aviv Monday night among from their homes and ordered to
them several activists. The new
sign similar statements Some
arris ids included Vladimir Mach
complied, the sources indicated.
Its, 28, whose brother. Leonid, but it was not immediately known
staged a hunger strike in New York
which ones The activists are Vik-
recently in support of Vladimir's tor and Elaine Polsky. Roman
demand for an exit visa
Holman. Illy a Kornfeld an Prof.
The Moscow authorities have Aleksander Lerner. Two other
picked lip another Jewish activist activists were not at hohe when
who refused to report for an army the militia men arris ed.
reserve canon en ;;rounds that it
A 36 hour hunger strike was
was aimed at stifling protest The launched by Katy- a Palatnik, sister
artiv,t, Shmuel Gurwitz, joins
of political prisoner Raiza Palatnik.
Victor Yakhout.
M ikhatl Ktiach- and Prof Eppelman. The vigil and
kin and Leonid Tsy pin in the strike will be co sponsored by the
a ',thorn hands sources here Jewish Community Council of
Greater Washington
said According to Jewish sources.
Yakhoul and Kliachkm are being Dutch Embassy in Moscow
held by the Moscow authorities and
Encounters No Problems in
have been sent to separate mili- Assisting Jews to Emigrate
tary camps for Iirs days' detention
JERUSALEM
(JT.AI --- The
Tsypin remains at the police sta
Netherlands foreign minister. Nor-

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
20—Friday, May 19, 1972

bert Schmelzer. said that the and pummeled Sunday by Black
Dutch Embassy in Moscow does who resented his photographing
whatever it can to assist Soviet 1 their Temple Islam. formerly ad

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.Iews who want to emigrate to Is- synagogue. The incident occurred).!
raid and that SO far it has en- on 'Intervale Street in Roxfeury, aj!
countered no administrative diffi- formerly Jewish neighborhood;
culties of any kind. Holland has Knchubievsky, who was treated byil
represented Israel's interests in a private doctor and then led ani'
the USSR since Moscow severed Israeli Independence Day paraded

diplomatic relations with Israel apparently misunderstood the;
during the Six-Dal. War. Schmelzer Blacks' warning not to photograplii
made his remarks at a press con- their temple, as he does not speak
ference here marking the end of English. According to one of his
his official visit to Israel interpreters. Peter
Zimmerman,

Knows his
mountains .. .

Hunger Strike in Ottawa an American, Kochubievsky was,
24 Hour
Is Held for Soviet Jews "knocked to the ground and kicke

OTTAWA (JTA) — A 24.hour repeatedly."
Justin Wyner, president of the
hunger strike held to protest Soviet
authorities' induction for military Jewish Community Council of

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duty of young Moscow Jews ended Metropolitan Boston, termed theq

May 11 in front of Ottawa's Par-
Lament with a promise from For -
eign Minister Mitchell Sharp's
secretary to forward the strikers'

memorandum to Canadian am-

bassador to Moscow. Gerald Ford.
to take up with the Soviet govern-
ment. The protesters went on the
hunger strike in front of parlia-
men bearing two huge placards:

"Trudeau, Save the Moscow 13"
(there are now 14 inductees) and
"Hunger Strike for Soviet Jewry."

On the threshold of Parliament,
one of the protesters, Able Ingber,
coordinator of the Student Struggle
for Soviet Jewry, met with Prime

Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau.
who told him: ''You should be
happy - with what the Canadian
government has done so far for
the reunification of Canadian
families (200 of 600 requests). You
should he happy with the number
of Jews going out to Israel." Tru-

deau explained to the strikers that
according to his information, the
Canadian Jewish Congress
and
other Jewish organizations in
Canada were pleased with what
the Canadian government has so
far achieved.

Boris Kochubievsky Beaten
for Photographing NY Church
BOSTON (JTA)--Boris Koehn-
blevsky, who in 1967 was among
the first Soviet Jews to demon-
strate for freedom, was thrown tee
the ground. punched in the face

incident an "outrage" and called
for a complete investigation of the
incident. Ile deplored the assault,
against "a distinguished visitor td
himself endured so
Boston who
much suffering the Soviet Union
as one of the early heroes in the
effort of Soviet Jew s tee obtain
their rights or to leave for Israel."

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Allen Mallenbaum of the Jewish
Survival Legion, which was show-
ing Kochubievsky around the city , '

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said "it was a communication
problem." The Soviet activist
plans to return to Israel later this

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