THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
December 12, 1975 25
Jewish Prisoner Released by Soviets After Partia Jail Te rm
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Pinhas Pinkhasov, a Jewish
carpenter from Derbent,
has been released after serv-
ing only two years of a five-
year sentence for economic
crimes, the National Con-
ference on Soviet Jewry re-
ported.
Pinkhasov was arrested in
September 1973 and tried in
November 1973 for over-
charging by a few kopecks
for a shelf he made for a
customer.
The NCSJ said he was the
only person in his town to
apply for an exit visa to Is-
rael. His wife and six chil-
dren were allowed to leave
for Israel after- his arrest.
Pinkhasov's early release is
considered rare and no im-
mediate explanation for this
was available.
In another development
the NCSJ reported that So-
viet police and KGB inter-
rupted Jewish activists last
week when they tried to
speak at a commemoration
ceremony for Jews mur-
dered by the Nazis in the
Rumbuli forest outside
Riga. About 40 Jews at-
tended the ceremony at
Rumbuli.
The NCSJ also said that
two activists, Valery Ka-
minsky and one surnamed
Gorodin were not permitted
by the KGB to leave their
homes for the ceremony.
The NCSJ also reported
that Gessia Penson, the
mother of prisoner of con-
science Boris Penson, who
was arrested in Moscow
last month for demonstrat-
ing, is still being detained.
Meanwhile, Stanley H.
Lowell, chairman of the
NCSJ, announced that Ilya
Giezer, a Soviet Jewish pris-
oner of conscience, has been
appointed a professor in the
department of biological
sciences at Ben-Gurion Uni-
versity of the Negev.
One of 40 POC's presently,
confined in Soviet labor and
prison camps, Glezer was
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arrested in 1972 and
charged with "anti-Soviet
propaganda, slander and
other crimes," exactly one
month after applying to
emigrate to Israel.
His two-day trial was
held behind closed doors
with his mother and rela-
tives barred from the court-
room. Throughout his trial
and in subsequent appeals,
Glezer has stoutly main-
tained that his only "crime"
is his fervent desire to live in
Israel.
Glezer was sentenced to
a three-year term in a la-
bor camp and an addi-
tional three years in exile.
After serving three years
in Potma labor camp, he is
presently exiled in the Sib-
erian town of Boguchany.
It also was reported that
Natalia (Avital) Sharansky,
separated from her husband
Anatoly, and her brother
Mikhail Shtiglitz, are tour-
ing the United States under
the auspices of the NCSJ.
In July 1974, Natalia and
Anatoly were married in
Moscow according to Jewish
law. "It was very difficult to
find a rabbi who would
marry us," Natalia said,
"The Soviet authorities
claimed a civil marriage was
impossible because Anatoly
was three years older than
me. The excuses were ab-
surd."
The day after their mar-
riage, Natalia left for Israel.
"We will never let you leave
together," the Soviet au-
thorities threatened. Ana-
toly remained behind. He
first applied for an exit visa
in April 1973.
"Since our marriage,"
Natalia said, "my hus-
band has been arrested
four times. He lives with
friends, changing the
place almost every day.
His last arrest was in
March, 1975."
Natalia
continued,
"Shortly after the arrest of
Boris Tsitlionik and Mark
Nashpitz, who were sent-
enced to five years in exile,
my husband was told by the
KGB, 'Your fate is in our
hands. You saw what hap-
pened to your friends. No
one in the West is interested
in you and all that you are
doing. Nobody in the entire
world will care if there is
one more prisoner of consci-
ence in the Soviet Union.'
He was also warned that all
the necessary papers were
signed and ready for his ar-
rest and trial for 'anti-So-
viet activities.' "
In 1972 while still in Mos-
cow, Natalia's brother, Mik-
hail Shtiglitz, who had first
applied to emigrate in 1971,
began studying Hebrew in
Woman Will Head
Jerusalem Court
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Judge Miriam Ben-Porat
has been appointed presi-
dent of the Jerusalem Dis-
trict Court. She is the first
woman to hold so high a
judicial office in Israel.
Judge Ben-Porat, :57, has
been on the bench for close
to 20 years. She succeeds
Judge Benzion Shereshei.,-
sky who was sworn as a jus-
tice of the Supreme Court.
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anticipation of his emigra-
tion. Presently a PhD de-
gree candidate in archeol-
ogy at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem,
Mikhail has been living in
Israel for two years.
In another development,
Naum Alshansky, a former
Soviet Jew who was a lieu-
tenant-colonel in the Red
Army, fears that the Soviet
Union will use the anti-
Zionist resolution adopted
by the United Nations Gen-
eral Assembly to cut off all
Jewish emigration to Israel.
He said the Soviets might
now say that they cannot al-
low people to go to a "racist"
country.
Alshansky, who during
26 years of service in the
Soviet army received 13
medals including the Or-
der of Red Banner, one of
the Soviet Union's highest
awards, said the Soviet
government was behind
the resolution labeling
Zionism as racism, not the
Arabs.
He said the USSR could
not introduce the resolution
since it was guilty itself of
racist practices toward the
various minorities within its
borders.
Interviewed in Yiddish at
the office of the Greater
New York Conference on
Soviet Jewry, Alshansky
urged Jews outside the So-
viet Union, who he said have
done much good, to increase
their demonstrations and
other efforts on behalf of
Soviet Jews. He said Ameri-
can Jewish organizations
should convince the United
States not to supply the
USSR with wheat and other
goods until all Jews are al-
lowed to leave.
Anti-Semitism, cloaked
as anti-Zionism, is prom-
oted by the Soviet govern-
ment and the Communist
Party, Alshansky main-
tained. He said this started
after World War II when
the Soviet Union turned to
nationalism and chauvinism
to win the support of the
people, many of whom had
become anti-Communist as
a result of seeing other
countries during the war.
"Whatever is wrong it is the
Jew that is blamed," he
said.
However, he said the
anti-Semitic policy of the
government has nurtured
Jewish identity. He said
the Soviet Communist
Party has done more to
increase Zionism among
Soviet Jews than has Zion-
ist ideology.
Meanwhile, the Student
Struggle for Soviet Jewry
announced that Hillel But-
man is serving a 10-year
sentence for seeking to leave
for Israel. He has been in-
terned in Russia's most no-
torious prison, Vladimir.
Letters of support to But-
man and in protest of his in-
carceration may be sent to
the camp commandant, Lt.
Col. Savyalkin, POB Od/1
St/2, Vladimir, RSFSR,
USSR.
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In New York, the NCSJ
reported that Soviet Jewish
activist Yuri Pokh was re-
leased from prison upor ,
completion of his 3 1/2 year
sentence.
The NCSJ also reported
that Eduard Kuznetsov,
the Jewish activist sent •
enced to 15 years in the
first Leningrad trial, hat
gone on a hunger strike
Kuznetsov, who has beer
reported seriously ill, it
serving his term in the
Potma camp.
The NCSJ said that Felix
Decker, a writer, was ex
pelled from the Writer:
Union because his book
"Jews in the USSR," deal
with underground Zionis
material, it was charged.
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