Document Smuggled Out of USSR Assails 'Railroading' of Feldman

that "In violation of the de-
mands of Statute 22 of the
Criminal Code of the Ukraini-
an SR?. the court investiga-
tion was conducted solely
one-sidely, superficially and
not objectively. During the
court session only three per-
sons who supported the verion
presented in the charge sheet
were questioned (and) only
the version of the presecu-
tion."
In addition, Ezhov states,
the explanation of Feldman,
his proofs that he was inno-
cent, and the testimony of
the prosecution witnesses"
"who had been questioned
during the preliminary in-
vestigation r cm a ine d un-
checked ..even ..though ..the
testimony of the (witnesses)
were of great importance for
the decision of the question
as to whether Feldman was
guilty or not."
Furthermore, Ezhov states,
Valentina's identity "was not
clarified sufficiently at the
court session," that "all at-
tempts to clarify the identity
of the victim (Valentina) were
stopped at the court session"
and the identity of the man
for whom she had bought the
cake and to whom she was
supposed to be delivering it
was not established."
Ezhov also notes that
"Feldman's explanations are
not groundless, while the
testimony of his opponents

In Strasbourg, the Council
of Europe Assembly has
adopted a Swedish d'elegate's
report on the maltreatment
of Jews in the Soviet Union.
With the exception of the
Communist delegate from
France, the delegates voted
for the report which strongly
criticized "the arbitrary ar-
rests and harassment" of
Jews by the Soviet govern-
ment.
The report demands that the
Soviet Union eliminate the
obstacles to emigration and
demands that the cultural and
religious rights of Jews be
respected in the USSR.
According to the report,
130,000 requests for visas by
Soviet Jews are still in the
processing stage.

In Washington, Rep. Mario
Biaggi (D/C-NY) announced
that the Soviet Embassy has
informed him Hersh Gutman,
a Soviet Jew whose exit visa
was suddenly revoked shortly
before he and his family were

due to depart for Israel in
summer 1972, would be grant-
ed a new visa.
Biaggi, who interceded with
the Soviet Embassy on Gut-
man's behalf, said his visa
was revoked when the KGB
said he was a former mem-
ber of the armed forces.

David Azbel, a 62-year-old
physics professor in Moscow,
will begin his hunger strike
today, it was reported by the
Student Struggle for Soviet
Jewry.
His hunger strike is in pro-
test against the treatment of
Soviet dissidents Andrei Sak-
harov and Aleksandr Solzh-
enitsyn as well as over the
denial of an exit visa to
himself. According to the
SSSJ, Prof. Azbel will be
joined in the hunger strike by
three of his friends: Prof.
Vitaly 'Rubin, an expert on
China; Benjamin Gorokhoz, a
screenwriter; and Anatoly
Galatsky, an artist.
Prof. Azbel, who was a
prisoner in f or c e d labor
camps between 1935 and 1951,
first applied for his visa in
April 1972. His friends have
also applied for visas but
have been turned down.
The Bnai Brith Anti-De-
famation League Citywide
Coordinating Committee in
New York will direct a pro-
ject by which 1,000 Jewish
families in th Soviet Union

will be "adopted" by area
residents belonging to Rnai
Brith.
Nathan Nagler, chairman of
the coordinating committee,
said that Soviet Jews who
want to emigrate are grate-
ful for the personal support
extended to them by con-
cerned persons in the West-
ern world. Letters, packages
and phone calls are an in-
valuable aid and indicate to
Soviet Jews that they have
not been forgotten, he said.
10-Year-Old Threatened
by Black September
CHICAGO —It was learned
this week that 10-year-old
Natasha Kornfeld, daughter
of mechanical engineer Ilya
Kornfeld, has been threatened
with death by the Black
September terrorist organiza-
tion.
The threat, in the form of
a letter postmarked London,

was sent to Natasha after her
photo, address and a poem on
Israel appeared in the London
Jewish Chronicle.
The "Rritish Section" of
Black September demanded
that Natasha write a reply
and warned that "even
Moscow is not too far for us."
It predicted a "short future
in Israel."
The Kornfelds, consisting
of Natasha's parents and one
other child, have been trying
to leave the Soviet Union
since March 1971.

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NEW YORK (JTA) — A
Brooklyn taxi driver was
awarded $11,889 in damages
and compensation f r o m
Trans-World Airlines on
grounds that anti-Semitic
bias was responsible for his
dismissal from a probation-
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nedy Airport in 1969.
In ordering the airline to
pay the amount, the City
Commission on Hum an
Rights contended that Mal-
colm Rattner, 27, a Vietnam
war veteran, was fired "be-
cause of his religion."
A TWA spokesman called
the ruling "ludicrous" and
said the airline would appeal.
The commission, in its rul-
L rejected TWA's conten-
uon that Rattner was fired
because his work as a ramp
serviceman was "unsatis-
factory."
"He was subjected to a
deliberate camp a i g n of
harassment by company offi-
cials which included his
being forced to work in areas
where vile anti-Semitic graf-
fiti known to his superiors
were in evidence," the com-
mission said in its ruling. It
also stated that $5,000 of the
total damages awarded was
to compensate Rattner for
"humiliation, outrage and
mental anguish."
According to Rattner, who
now drives a cab for a living,
his troubles with TWA began
when he asked for a day off
on Yom Kippur.

arouse d o u b t s concerning
their truthfulness."
Malcolm Hoenlein, confer-
ence executive director, told
of Soviet Jews seeking to
leave has intensified. The
anti-Jewish campaign in the
Soviet press has steadily in-
creased during the past year,
particularly since the Yom
Kippur war, he said.

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NEW YORK (JTA) — A
Soviet lawyer indicted the
Soviet government for rail-
roading Aleksandr Feldman
to jail and requested that the
verdict "be repealed from the
stage of the preliminary in-
vestigation."
The document was released
by the Greater New York
Conference on Soviet Jewry
at a press conference here.
Stanley H. Lowell, conference
chairman, noted that the
document "is the first of its
kind ever made public out-
side the Soviet Uunion. It is
a stinging indictment of the
Soviet legal system in the
case of Feldman but indicates
us that the same method
railroading is used in the
cases of other Jews who wish
to emigrate."
The document, smuggled
out of the USSR by City
Council President Paul
O'Dwyer and Manhattan
Borough President Percy Sut-
ton when they were there last
month, is the court brief pre-
sented by I. S. Ezhov, who
was Feldman's lawyer during
the trial last November when
the 26-year-old Jewish engi-
neer was sentenced to 3%
years at hard labor for al-
legedly hitting a woman and
injuring her in the process.
According to the verdict,
Ezhov states, Feldman was
found guilty of assaulting
Tellekova Valentina by hit-
ting her with his briefcase,
knocking a cake out of her
hand and using obscene
language.
He was also charged with
resisting two men who tried
to help her and engaging in
fights with both persons. The
one-day trial was held in a
Kiev factory and Feldman's
family was not allowed to at-
tend.
Ezhov, in his brief, states

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