8 Friday, August 15, 1975

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Soviet Jewish Activist Mark Nashpitz in Siberian Prison Camp

PHILADELPHIA (JTA)
— First word of the location
of one of the newest Soviet
Jewish prisoners of consci-
ence—activist Mark Nash-
pitz—was secured in infor-
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Mrs. Sussman returned
from the USSR and 16 days
of meetings with leading
activists in Moscow, Kiev
and other Soviet cities and
learned that Nashpitz has
been taken to a Siberian
prison camp at Tupik, which
means "dead end" in Rus-
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details in a letter received
from Nashpitz by Moscow
activist Vladimir Slepak.
The letter is believed to be
the first news about Nash-
pitz's location.

Nashpitz was arrested
Feb. 24 with activist Boris
Tsitlionok in a demonstra-
tion in Moscow which
caused no disruption.
They were sentenced
March 31 to five years in
exile after being denied the
right to testify in their own
behalf.

In his letter to Slepak ob-
tained by Mrs. Sussman,
Nashpitz relates how he has
been transferred from
prison camp to prison camp
since the trial. He said he
has been in prisons in Mos-
cow, Sverdlovsk, Novosi-
birsk, Irkutz, Mogachevo
and Tupik.
"All over, these prisons
are overcrowded, and we're
given only bread and spoiled
rusty herring," Nashpitz
wrote. "In the compart-
ments that are big enough
for four men, sit 22 men.
There are quarrels and
sometimes clothes are re-
moved. Now I'm in Tupik.
The name speaks for itself.
That is why I ask you again
and again to inform me
what is happening," Nash-
pitz said in a plea for letters
from the outside.
Meanwhile, former
"Prisoners of Conscience"
Lassal Kaminsky, 34, and
Lev.Yagman, 44, arrived in
Israel after spending four
years in Soviet labor camps
following their convictions
in the second Leningrad
trial in May 1971. They said
that being in Israel was like
a dream.

The two men were
greeted by their families-
Yagman, by his wife and
son, Daniel, 12, and
daughter Ilana, 8; and
Kaminsky by his wife and
two daughters, Lyuba, 12
and Meira, 15. Also at
Ben-Gurion Airport for
the reunion were repre-
sentatives of the Prisoners
of Zion Organization, the
Public Council for Russian
Jewry and members of
Kibutz Nir David which
had adopted Kaminsky.

In New York it was re-
ported that David Chernog-
lass, 36, of Leningrad has
been given an exit visa to re-

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join his family in Israel.
The Greater New York
Conference on Soviet Jewry
reported that Chernoglass
was released_ last June 15
after completing a five-year
term at the Vladimir prison
but was unable to obtain an
exit permit immediately.
Chernoglass had been sent-
enced in Kishinev in June
1971.
Sourses also reported that
Yakov Vinarov, 21, was
sentenced by the Kiev city
court to three years in jail
for evading the military
draft after he was refused
permission last March to
emigrate to Israel.

Meanwhile, four tomb-
stones bearing the names
of authors murdered dur-
ing the Stalinist regime
provided a grim backdrop
Tuesday when the
GNYCSJ marked the 23rd
anniversary of the Massa-
cre of 24 Jewish poets and
writers in the Lubianka
Prison in Moscow with a
program of poetry read-
ings on the steps of the
New York Public Library
in Manhattan.

Mrs. Lidya Mogilevsky and her 2-year-old son, Si-
mon, are among recent Russian Jewish newcomers to
the New York area. The family was assisted in its initial
settlement here by NYANA, the New York Association
for New Americans. NYANA, the only settlement
agency for Jewish migrants in the New York area, is
funded by the United Jewish Appeal (and in New York
City by the Joint Campaign of the United Jewish Ap-
peal/Federation of Jewish Philanthropies).

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since his godfather — the
famous ballet dancer and
friend of the family, Valery
Panov — was being watched
by the police.
Like Simon's circumci-
sion, that of David was done
in his parents' home. But
unlike Simon's, it was an
open, joyous celebration in
the middle of the day, with
wine and a heavily laden
buffet table and many
friends to share the happy
occasion.
David's parents, Boris
and Lidya Mogilevsky, and
little Simon arrived in New
York in November 1974 and
were assisted in their initial
settlement by NYANA.

Kings County District
Attorney Eugene Gold,
GNYCSJ chairman, said
poems in Yiddish and En-
glish by the slain authors
were read by concert artist
Theodore Bikel and mem-
bers of Yugntruph, a Yid-
dish group. He said the
deaths of the Jewish writ-
ers, poets and public figures
climaxed a four-year cam-
paign by Soviet authorities
to eradicate Jewish culture
in the USSR.
Between 1948 and 1952
some 431 outstanding Jew-
ish artists were arrested.
They included 217 writers,
108 actors, 87 painters and
sculptors and 19 musicians.
Because David was born
Most of the prisoners died in
Soviet labor camps, Gold on U.S. soil, he is an
American citizen, while
said.

‘

In Detroit at a recent
Israel Bond dinner honor-
ing Dr. and Mrs. Peter A.
Martin, the Detroit Com-
mittee for Soviet Jewry
presented Dr. Martin with
a State of Israel Bond
made out jointly in his
name and the name of Dr.'
Semyon Gluzman, a Soviet
Jew on whose behalf Dr.
Martin has acted.

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the rest of his family will
have to wait seven years to
get that status. And he —
as well as Simon — will be
brought up as Jews, while
their parents couldn't
practice Jewish customs
openly in Russia and, in
fact, know little about the
religion and tradition of
their ancestors.

Meanwhile, renowned
Soviet cinematographer
Mikhail Suslov, whose two-
year struggle to emigrate
won the attention of Jean-
Paul Sartre and Simone de
Beauvoir, arrived last
month at New York's JFK
Airport, with the help of
United HIAS Service. He
was joined by writer Felix
Kamov and journalist Ev-
geny Baras.

Kahane Plans Legal Action
Against Corrections Official

NEW YORK, (JTA) — a campaign to protest
Rabbi Meir Kahane, foun- what they feel are "Ford's
der of the Jewish Defense general foreign policy of
League, said that he plans choking Israel into conces-
to take legal action against sions."
Matthew Walsh, director of
Kahane said, "It was only
the Westside Community
Dr. Martin, a psychia- Treatment Center where when the government saw
trist, and his wife, have the rabbi is serving a one- that my presence in New
been active in efforts for So- year sentence, for reducing York enabled me to meet
viet Jews and were instru- the time he is allowed to legally with people and plan
activities against the Ford-
mental in helping the fam- spend outside the center.
Kissinger • Administration
ily of psychiatrist Dr.
Kahane told a press con-
Vladimir Levitt emigrate to ference at Gefens Restau- that orders were given to
Israel. Since then, Dr. Mar- rant in Manhattan's gar- Walsh to crack down."
tin became interested in Dr. ment center that for the
U.S. Attorney David G.
Gluzman's case, in which past three weeks Walsh has Trager asked the Court of
the Soviet Jewish psychia- disobeyed court orders by Appeals to transfer Kahane
trist was sentenced to 10 reducing his time outside ,to the federal penitentiary
years' imprisonment for the center from the court-al- in Allenwood, Pa. while the
criticizing the treatment of lowed 7 1/2 hours to 4 1/2 hours issue of whether Jewish
institutionalized Soviet so- a day.
prisoners should be allowed
cial critics.
Federal Judge Jack Wein- kosher food is being re-
The New York Associa- stein issued an order last solved. Trager said that
tion for New Americans re- May that allowed the rabbi Kahane has shown disre-
ported that a brit mila of time outside the half-way gard for the regulations of
the son of newly arrived detention house to pray and the half-way house.
Russian immigrants was eat at kosher restaurants.
Walsh supported in court
celebrated recently. How-
Kahane said he felt his
papers that he reduced the
ever, David Mogilevsky's time outside the center 43-year-old rabbi's time out-
was different from his was being reduced as a side the center because of
brother,'Simon's.
result of his recent activi- his repeatedly late arrivals.
Simon was also circum-
ties against the Ford Ad- Kahane has served almost
cised — but that happened ministration's policies to- five months of a one-year
two years ago, in Russia, ward Israel. He and the sentence for parole viola-
and it took place at dawn,
JDL have been working on
tions in 1971.

