Emigres Are Forced to Refund Costs
of Education to Soviet Government
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Sources in!
Moscow confirmed Wednesday by
telephone that Jews leaving the
Soviet Union must refund the
costs of their education.
The sources said the Soviet gov-
ernment's decision, adopted Aug.
3, imposed the following "special
taxes" or "education refunds":
For a graduate of a humanistic
institution, 4,500 rubles ($4,995);
for a graduate of a polytechnium,
7,700 rubles (58,547); for a grad-
uate of a high school of arts and
music, 9,600 rubles ($10,656); for
a graduate of a university, 12,200
rubles ($13,542), plus another
5,400 rubles ($5,904) if a grad-
uate of an institution of science,
for a total of 17,600 rubles ($19,-
536); for a professor, 19,400 rubles
($21,534).
The sources stressed that
these sums are beyond the
dreams of Soviet academicians
or technicians, whose salaries
range between 200 and 300 rubles
($222-333) a month. The new
rule, they said, has caused
grave anxiety among Soviet
Jews.
Officials of two major Jewish
organizations Wednesday denounc-
ed in separate statements the ad-
ditional charge by Soviet officials.
Richard Maass, chairman of the
National Conference on Soviet
Jewry, called the decision "black-
mail and ransom." "The callous-
ness of th:s newest move is surely
a desperate one on the part of
the Soviet Union," he said. It is
"apparent that the Soviet Union
is determined to break the spirit
of the Jews who wish to emigrate
to escape discrimination . . . The
civilized world must unequivocably
condemn the selling of Jewish
bodies and brains by Soviet author-
ities," he stated.
Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman, chair-
man of the Greater New York
Conference on Soviet Jewry, and
Stanley Lowell, chairman-elect
of the Conference, charged that
"This new step is but another in-
dication of the increased oppres-
sion of Soviet Jews . . It would
take many years for all but a few
to accumulate the kind of money
that would be necessary to secure
an exit visa," they said.
called upon President
Nixon to immediately appoint a
committee to investigate the
"discrimination and plight" of
Soviet Jews. He also asked that
the chairman of the committee
report directly to the Presi-
dent. Klaperman and Lowell
called on the U.S. government,
the United Nations and other
international bodies to join in
demanding "an end to these vio-
lations of human rights and de-
cency."
20th Year of Intellectuals'
Massacre Marked in Many Cities
Maass
TEL AVIV (JTA) — David
Nlarkish, son of the Jewish poet,
Peretz Markish, who was murder-
ed in 1952 with 23 other Soviet
Jewish intellectuals by Stalin, said
Radish last Saturday in Moscow
in one of many observances
throughout the world of the 20th
anniversary of the executions.
More than 50 Jews attended the
services at the crematorium where
Solomon Mikhoels, one of the 24,
was buried, according to a tele-
phone report by David to his wife
Irene, in Tel Aviv.
Hundreds of Jews visited the
Markish home Saturday where
the poet and his mother, Esther,
are living, denied permission to
leave the Soviet Union, despite
worldwide protests. The Mark-
ishes received many letters and
cables from foreign countries.
The young poet, •ahr,
forced to work as a oorler
he applikrd fore
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The 20th anniversary of the tragic "black years" of the Stalin
regime during which there were mass murders of Jewish writers,
of distinguished poets and noted artists, is an occasion for demand
to be made upon the Russian government to release those who
seek haven in Israel.
Special appeals are being directed in behalf of Esther Markish,
widow of Peretz Markish, the great Russian-Jewish writer who
was among those murdered on Stalin's orders, and her son,
David. They are being persecuted and denied visas to leave Russia.
Appeals in their behalf should be addressed to Ambassador
Anatoly Dobrynin, USSR Embassy, 1125 16th St. NW., Washington,
D.C. 20036.
At the same time, messages of comfort and encouragement
should be written to Esther and David Markish, 64 Gorky, Apt. 67,
Moscow, USSR.
wife that the Soviet interior min-
istry had rejected their Russian
citizenship. He added that he in-
tends to appeal to the Supreme
Soviet on the request.
The Herut Party world executive
sent expressions of solidarity to
the Markishes, declaring the party
would do all in its power to help
them leave for Israel.
About 100 passersby joined a
brief ceremony at the Isaiah Wall
near United Nations Friday in New
York to commemorate the 1952
murders.
In Paris, Dr. Nathan Goldmann
urged the Soviet government to
act to "put an end to the suffer-
ing and difficulties presently en-
countered by the Soviet Jews."
The victims of "a frantic anti-
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Agu-
dath Israel organization reported
Monday a record enrollment of
over 6,000 children in its 26 sum-
mer camps in the U.S. and Canada,
Europe, Latin America and Israel.
Part of the expansion, the Agu-
da said, is accounted for by the
addition of special religious camps
in Israel for 800 Russian immigrant
children, for whom scholarships
are being being sponsored by the
Russian Immigrant Rescue Fund,
an Orthodox agency handling the
"spiritual absorption" of Russian
emigres in Israel.
Argentina.
The vacation retreats are locat-
ed in New York's Catskill Moun-
tains, England, Belgium, Switzer-
Markman Gets Three-Year
Sentence at Hard Labor
NEW YORK (JTA) — Vladimir
Markman, Sverdlovsk Jewish acti-
vist accused of hooliganism and
giving slanderous information
about the Soviet Union abroad, was
convicted in Sverdlovsk to three
years on special regime, which is
hard labor, Richard Maass, chair-
man of the National Conference on
Soviet Jewry, reported.
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Sen. George McGovern called on
the Soviet Union to annul the sen-
tence.
"The harshness of this sentence,"
Sen. McGovern said in a state-
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According to Maass, Roman
A. Rudenko, procurator general
for the entire Soviet Union, pre-
sided at the trial.
"These men had made an es-
sential contribution to the cul-
tural and national heritage of the
Jewish people," he continued.
"This coldly perpetrated assassina-
tion annihilated a group of men
who were rightly considered as
the flower of the Jewish intellect-
ual elite."
Goldmann, who became WJC
president the year after the execu-
tions, said it would be "appropri-
ate" for the Soviet government
at this time "to grant Soviet Jews
the right of emigration to Israel
if they wish to be either reunited
with their family or to settle in
the country of their ancestors; to
stop the harassment and halt fur-
ther detention of Soviet Jews
whose only crime is to claim the
right of emigration and release
those who are presently held in
various detention camps for simi-
lar motives; to give Soviet Jews
who wish to remain in the Soviet
Union the possibility of leading a
full Jewish life with all the ap-
propriate institutions pertaining
to their traditions, in conformity
with the constitution of Soviet
Russia"
The National Conference on So-
viet Jewry issued a booklet, "The
Night of the Murdered Poets,"
containing English translations of
the works of some of Stalin's vic-
tims. The booklet said that until
repression against Soviet Jews
ceased, "the echoes of Aug. 12,"
the anniversary of the murders.
"will not be stilled." Some 100
writers and scholars addressed an
appeal to Soviet President Pod-
gorny, urging him to "restore to •
the Soviet Jews their fundamental
human rights."
In London. more than 40 leading
British, American and French
writers, Jewish and Gentile, sent
an appeal to the Soviet Union.on
the anniversary. The letter said in
part "20 years later, in the ab-
sence of reparation of an irrepar-
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wish to the a full Jewish life and
have the possibility of self-ex-
pression, to be entitled to do so?"
Jewish persecution which pre-
vailed in Soviet Russia in the
late years of the Stalin regime"
had "not only enriched our Yid-
dish literature and poetry, but
also greatly contributed to the
national culture of the Soviet
Union," the president of the
World Jewish Congress stated.
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