2 Activists to Go on Trial for 'Violating Soviet Code'
Natan Feingold and other their Christmas by organi-
activists in support of am- zing support for Soviet Jew-
nesty for the political prison- ry.
ers, the SSSJ reported.
More than $100 has been
In other developments, raised from a series of open
Prof. Benjamin Levitch and house parties given by the
Aleksander Lerner, two Jew- Luther Place Memorial
The SSSJ said it learned ish scientist-activists who Church.
that Lazar Lubarsky of Ros- have been demanding exit
The fund-raising drive is
tov, an engineer who was visas to go to Israel and spearheaded by Pastor John
were
told
to
appear
for
a
arrested last July 17, will be
Steinbruck, whose interest in
tried in a closed courtroom hearing on their visa re- the cause of Soviet Jewry is
between Jan. 1 and 15. He quests, have published an a long-standing one. For the
has been charged with giving open letter explaining that past two years Pastor Stein-
secret documents to unau- they had refused to appear bruck has participated regu-
thorized persons in violation before the so-called appeals larly in the daily vigil at the
committee of the ovir be- Soviet Embassy.
of the penal code.
No trial date has been set cause they had discovered
Ile was instrumental in his
for Yesim Davidovich of that it was not an appeals
congregation's adoption of a
committee
but
a
fictitious
Minsk ,accused of anti-Soviet
Soviet Jewish prisoner, Val-
ery Kukui. Members of the
slander and illegal possession body.
Meanwhile, 21 Jews in Vil- congregation send letters to
of a pistol. Davidovich, 48,
has suffered three heart at- na and Kovno have appeal. Kukui regularly and have at-
tacks and has told friends he ed to the International Red tempted to get through to
Magen him by telephone several
does not expect to live Cross and to the
through his trial, the SSSJ David Adorn in Israel for times.
help in connection with the
reported.
They also have planted a
In connection with the Da• ransom tax on their exit tree in his name in Israel.
visas,
which
the
authorities
Four members of the Jew•
vidovlch case, another actl•
ish Defense League were ar-
vist surnamed Klpnis who are demanding.
They say In their appeal rested here for disrupting a
was given an exit visa, was
pulled off a train at Brest as that they cannot possibly reception at the Soviet Em-
he was leaving Russia on raise these kinds of monies bassy in honor of the 50th
Nov. 29 and returned to unless helped by the Red anniversary of the founding
of the Soviet Union.
-
Minsk where he is being held Cross.
by the KGB (secret police).
According to JDL leader
It was reported that Simon
Ki-pnis is believed to he the Levit and Harry Kirzner, Dr. William Perl, a fifth
owner of the 1941 pistol said who have recently been re- demonstrator slipped out dur-
to have been found in David- leased from forced labor ing the melee.
ovich's possession, the SSSJ camps, are still in Kishinev,
Dr. Pert and another JDL
reported.
trying to secure their exit member, Denise Leish, a 20-
The re-arrests of more visas.
year-old student at the Uni-
Jews detained in Moscow
In Moscow, a group of versity of Maryland, chain-
Dec. 18 as they demonstrat- Jews who had been told to ed themselves to a five-foot
ed at the Supreme Soviet come to ovir and appear be- high metal ornamental can-
for amnesty for Jewish poli- fore the appeals committee dlestick in a dining room on
tical prisoners, was report- on Dec. 14 and 15, were told
the second floor of the Em-
ed by the SSS.I.
to conic again on Dec. 18 and bassy..
Irma Bronstein, of Novo- 19 and then again yesterday.
Dr. Perl and Miss Leish
sibirsk and her daughter, . They were then told that gained entrance to the em-
Victoria Poltinikov, were ar- they would have to pay close bassy by arriving in a chauf-
rested after their release in to $8,000 each for their exit fer-driven limousine and us-
Moscow and have been sen- visas. This group includes ing false invitations. A -half
tenced to six months correc
Viktor Vakhout and Lev Li- hour after their arrival, three
bee labor They are the hoc, tiso Jewish activists .1 DI. youths arrived in an-
mother and sister respectRe
who, according to earlier re- other chauffer-driven
ly of Eleanora Vampolsky, an oarts, had received their exit sone and slipped through a
activist who was permitted visas along with Viktor tightened security network
to leave the Soviet Union Perelman. a Moscow Jewish into the ground floor of the
earlier this year .
journalist.
Correctis e labor permits
Five thousand cablegrams .
the prisoner to live at home
were dispatched to Kremlin
while working at a job pre-
leaders appealing for am-
scribed by the state. They
nesty for 44 Jewish "Prison- .
part of their
must remit
ers of Conscience" on the oc-
wages to the state. The two
casion of the 50th anniversary
additional arrests brought to
of the USSR, when amnes-
a total of 23 sentenced in the
ties are generally granted to
last week.
Another of the Moscow de• political prisoners and others.
NEW YORK (JTA)—Two
Jewish activists will go on
trial shortly in Rostov and
Minsk, according to Jewish
sources in the Soviet Union,
the Student Struggle for So-
viet Jewry reported.
monotrators, Margerit a
Shpilberg, wife of the prison-
er Arkady Shpilberg, has dis-
appeared since returning to
Riga and may have been im-
prisoned, the SSSJ said.
Meanwhile, hunger strikes
were begun in the Moscow
homes of Dan Roginsky,
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embassy ,tossing leaflets and
yelling anti-Soviet slogans.
Fighting immediately broke
out and kicks and punches
continued to be exchanged
as the scuffle spilled out on-
to the sidewalk, Dr. Perl
said.
The four JDLers taken into
custody were released after
paying $10 bond each.
In Toronto the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry
held its first meeting and
elected a special committee
to deal with projects to aid
Soviet Jews.
Palatnik, Large Group
of Soviet Jews Arrive
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Raiza
Palatnik, the 36-year-old
Odessa librarian who served
two years in a Soviet prison
for allegedly distributing
"anti-Soviet literature," ar-
rived in Israel with a large
group of other Soviet Jews.
Miss Palatnik said that
during her imprisonment she
had been frequently inter-
rogated in efforts "to per-
suade me that I was wrong
and that I should reform."
She commented that she had
been jailed with criminals
"with whom it was easier to
talk than with the prison
management," and reported
that her parents had been
permitted to visit her only
twice a year and that she
was barred from getting mail
or parcels.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
6—Friday, Dec. 29, 1972
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Americans of all faiths, were
part of a new campaign on
behalf of the prisoners
launched by the Greater New
York Conference for Soviet
Jewry. They were addressed
to President Nikolai V. Pod-
gorily and Premier Aleksei
N. Kosygin.
In London, the captain of a
Soviet cruise ship accepted
a parcel of vitamins and
special food for Syls-a Zal-
manson Kuznetsov and prom-
ised a group of ,Jewish de-
monstrators that he would
deliver it to her personally
at the Potma forced labor
camp where Mrs. Kuznetsov
is serving a 10-year sentence.
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