Friday, October 1, 1976 13
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Soviet Jewish Hero Is Reburied
TEL AVIV — The re-
. mains of Col. Yefim
Davidovitch, the Soviet
Red Army hero who was
stripped of his rank, med-
als and pension after he
applied to emigrate to Is-
rael, were reburied in
Jerusalem this week. He
was commissioned as an
honorary colonel of the
Israel armed forces.
- The Kremlin, which
had refused to allow the
war hero to emigrate in
his lifetime on the
grounds thathe knew se-
curity secrets, last week
)ermitted his family to
Jake his remains to ISrael
for burial in accordance
with his wishes. He died
six months ago in Minsk.
In Jerusalem, Leon
Dulzin, treasurer of the
Jewish Agency and the
World Zionist Organiza-
tion, sharply attacked in-
ternational Jewish aid.
organizations that assist
Jews who leave the Soviet
Union with Israeli visas
but "drop out" en route
and settle elsewhere.
In a statement following
his return from a visit to
the U.S. and Britain, Dul-
zin said the drop-out factor
threatened the entire aliya
movement. He said his
view represented the opin-
ion of the WZO Executive
and of Jewish leaders
abroad.
Yosef Almogi, chair-
man of the Jewish Agency
and WZO Executives,
said that should the
Zionist movement be
called upon to assist Jews
leaving the USSR but de-
siring to to the U.S., it
would do its best, but not
at the expense of Jews
willing to come to Israel
or at Israel's expense. He
said there was no doubt
that the drop-out problem
has damaged the aliya
movement.
In New York it was
learned that Leningrad
activist Dr. Alexander
Boguslaysky
has .re-
._
ceived an exit visa to Is-
rael. The Student Strug-
gle for Soviet Jewry said
the 48-year-old shipbuild-
ing engineer has been
seeking exit_ for over
three years.
His v brother, Victor
Boguslaysky, now in Is-
rael, wa ys sentenced to
three years at the second
Leningrad trial in May,
1971 for publicly denounc-
ing the mass arrests of
"refusenik" Jews on June
15, 1970.
In a related develop-
ment, it was learned that
Soviet refusenik Mikhail
Goril was refused an exit
'visa on the grounds that
he learned secret infor-
mation while serving in
the Soviet Army.
A document signed by
Goril's platoon comman-
der and the chief of staff
and commander of his
military unit stated that
he "had no access to sec-
ret documents and secret
installations." Despite
the document, Goril has
been unable to emigrate
to Israel.
In California, Senator
John V. Tunney (D.-Calif.),
in a letter to Soviet Am-
bassador Dobrynin, has
urged that Ida Nudel of
Moscow, a Russian Jew, be
allowed to emigrate.
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YEFIM DAVIDOVITCH
It also was learned that
the Al Tidom Association
has received an urgent
message from a group of
Soviet Jewish refuseniks
in Vilna, asking that
world opinion be
mobilized to help them
win the right to emigrate
to Israel. The members of
the Vilna group have all
been refuseniks for a
lengthy period.
In New York, 100
shofars - were sounded in
unison, heralding the
Jewish New Year and
highlighting the plight of
scores of Soviet Jewish
`prisoners of conscience."
The ceremony was held at
the Isaiah Wall opposite
the United Nations.
The "Shofar for Free-
dom" ceremony, which
launched a series of
events to mark the High
`Holy Days, was sponsored
by the Greater New York
Conference - on - Soviet
Jewry and focused on the
need for renewed efforts
in the year ahead to gain
freedom for vast numbers
of Soviet Jews.
The ceremony took on
special meaning in that it
also marked the birthday
of Dr. Mikhail Stern, a
prominent Soviet Jewish
physician who is serving
an eight-year term in a
Soviet labor tamp.
Meanwhile, Rabbi Pin-
chas M. Teitz, dean of the
Jewish Educational
Center in New Jersey,
said he had received con-
firmation from Jewish
leaders in communities
throughout the Soviet
Union of the arrival of
shipments of esrogim,
lulavim and hadasim.
The Orthodox - leader
said that in checking with
Riga Jewish leaders on
the arrival of the ship-
ment in that city he had
been informed that
Shlomo Geishkin, presi-
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Synagogue Adopts
2- nd Soviet Family
dent
of
the
only
synagogue in Riga, had
died of a heart attack at
age 65 on Sept. 18.
In New York, the Na-
tional Conference on
Soviet Jewry reported
that Dr. Alexander Miz-
rukhin, a Kiev psychiat-
rist who now works as a
general practitioner in a
Kiev hospital, had his
schedule changed to
make it impossible for
him to attend a memorial
ceremony marking the
35th anniversary of the
massacre of Jews at Babi
Yar.
.Mizrukhin, a Jewish ac-
tivist, was told he must
work a double shift that
day and cannot leave the
hospital. The NCSJ said
this was another example
of the ; Soviet authorities
attempts to prevent the
ceremo0- from being held.
U.S. Presidential
nominee Jimmy Carter
'issued a statement on the
eve of the 35th
anniversary of the Babi
Yar massacre, expressing
his "strong hope that
Soviet citizens of the
Jewish faith will be per-
mitted to memorialize
their dead at Babi Yar on
the 35th anniversary of
the Nazi massacre."
The statement, a copy
of which was sent to
Soviet Communist Party
Secretary Leonid I.
Brezhnev,. was in re-
sponse to a c-ommunica:
tion from Mrs. Ester Po-
lin, president of the
Jewish Community Rela-
tions Council of Philadel-
phia, who asked both Car-
ter and President Ford to
state their positions on
this issue.
Congressman William
M. Brodhead , (17th
District-Mich.), in a
speech to the House of
Representatives, de-
manded that Soviet Jews
be allowed to memorialize
their relatives killed at
Babi Yar.
Brodhead said that he
had sent a telegram to
Soviet Party Chairman
Brezhnev urging full civil
rights for Jewish families
in Kiev, and he called upon
his colleagues to do the
same.
Meanwhile, Detroit
delegates to the annual
meeting of the Union of
Council for Soviet Jews,
joined fellow delegates in
opposing a repeal of the
Jackson-Vanik amend-
ment.
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PLO Nuclear
Membership Hit
Cong. Beth Shalom has
adopted its second Soviet
Jewish family, that of
JERUSALEM (JTA),—
Mikhail Strugach of
Leningrad. The effort Israel is seeking to pre-
was sparked by Dorothy vent the Palestine Liber-
Harwood, a member of ation Organization from
the congregation and rel- being given observer
status by, the Interna-
ative of Strugach.
Strugach has been re- tional Atomic Energy
fused permission to leave ,Agency. The proposal
the Soviet Union because made by Iraq will be
the Soviet government taken up when the.
believes he has had ac- agency meets in Rio de
cess to state secrets. A Janeirb shortly.
Israeli officials said
mathematician
and
fluidics
engineer, that their prosit ion has
Strugach has not been al- been strengthened by a
lowed to work since he statement made in Lon-
first applied to leave in don by a 16-member sci-
May 1973. His wife, entific committee warn-
Yelena, is a watchmaker. ing against the possibility
They have a son, Grigory, of "nuclear blackmail" by-
terrorist groups.
now in kindergarten.
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