Soviet Jew Describes Labor Camp Cruelty
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London (JTA)—The cruelties of a Soviet forced labor camp as described by a man who endured them for two years were
reported by Jewish sources in the Soviet Union. According to the sources, Lazar Trakhtenberg, a 27-year-old Jew from Kishinev, spent time in solitary confinement for offering his lower bunk to a sick ^Jewish fellow prisoner at the camp. New York (JTA)—Jew's in the Trakhtenberg a n d Arkady city of Kiev, will wear "yellow Voloshin, 28, also of Kishinev, stars", if they are not permitted were released from the camp to emigrate because they can- after completirig their sentencnot pay the increased exit fees es. Both were arrested Aug. 15, 1970. Trakhtenberg-.was punishfor educated Jews, the Student ed with solitary confinement Struggle for Soviet Jewry said because he argued with a camp it had been told by a Kiev Jew. foreman who insisted that he In a telephone conversation give the lower bunk to one of with a Kiev Soviet-Jewish acti- the former Nazis incarcerated vist leader who preferred to re- to the camp instead of to 51main unidentified, the SSSJ was' year-old Lev Kornblit. told that Kiev Jews had learnAccording to Trakhtenberg, ed that if a person leaves school Kornblit,, who survived Nazi before graduation because he concentration c a m p s during wishes to emigrate, he will be World War II, w a s ill and required to pay the heavy exit couldn't sleep when he offered fee on a percentage basis.' the bunk. In solitary, he said ''They (the government) have he was fed" only on alternate no right to take our money days. He had no chair or table since the people are always told and his cot was removed from that e d u c a t i o n is free of the cell at six a.m., and returncharge," she said. "If they ed only at night so that he had want to take money they should to stand all day or sit on. the request a sum which is in the wet cement floor. He was given realm of possibility." Stating no blanket despite the cold that "none of us can now leave, weather arid the guards took none of us have this type of away his jacket. Trakhtenberg money," she added, "the sit- said the air inJiis cell was foul uation of the Jews in Kiev now and that he was given no exer-. Is like a pot boiling with the top cise throughout His solitary conifinement.; ,;• closed."
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JewryGives $7,500 -Bane Jem
^Omaha—A contribution of $7,500 to aid the flood-stricken J e w i s h community of Wilkcs Barre, Pennsylvania, has been made by the Omaha Jewish community. , Responding to an appeal from the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, the Executive' Committee of the Omaha Jewish Federation meeP ing last week, voted unanimously to contribute the requested
funds to the emergency •flood period. These include individual relief program. needs, continuation of Jewish Max M. Fisher CJFWF pres- comunal services, restoration of ident,- reported this week that Jewish institutions and initial prompt action by U47 Jewish interest payments for business Federations th r b u g h o u t the loans, United States has. resulted in allocations tot a 1 i n g $1,386,000 , Morley Zipursky, president of thus far. The CJFWF issued a the Omaha Jewish Federation, call earlier, tliis month to mem-, noted the urgent needs • in ber Federations for financial Wilkes-Barre in the "Herculean ' assistance for the Wilkes-Barre task of rebuilding personal and community totaling more than community lives." $2,000,000. " ; '- ; Mr. -Zipursky said that indi- Fisher said "this generous viduals who want to contribute outpouring by Jewish commun- to the effort should send their ities across the country and the contributions to the O m a h a ' unprecedented speed with which Jewish Federation, 101 N. 20th the.se funds are being made St., Omaha, Neb. Checks should available, is indicative of the be made payable to the Omaha concern of the American Jew- Jewish Federation with a notaish community for the well-be- tion that the money is for the ing of-the Wilkes-Barre com- Wilkes-Barre flood relief. munity." - "\.. brew University in Jerusale'm. ident, commended the person- 'Fisher said that theCJFWF nel committee, headed by Harlie received his Ph.D.in politiSec r e l a t e d story on assistance program was pro|&1 science in 1969 from thp lan Hockenberg, in their selec- jected to meet the Jewish comWilkes-Barre, page 3 of this • B|nlversity of Pennsylvania. issue. munity's needs bvei; a two-year 'He has been active in Jewish communal work. He was a youth worker in an immigrant village in I s r a e l , a Hebrew teacher for 1% years at Englewood; N. J., youth director of Schiff Center? Bronx, N. Y., administrative director of 'Camp - Betar at Neversink, N. Y., and has lectured on several topics TEL AVIV (JTA)—Informed sources reported Here that new concerning Israel and the Jewinformation from the Soviet Union indicated that the Soviet; ait* ish people. • thorities are demanding the payment of the new higher exit fees His wife, Hanna, is an Israeli. She is an accredited for Jewish academicians within 30 days of receipt by the Jewish teacher and has done social applicant of his or her exit permit. . > work in Israel. They have a The sources said that if payment is not made within that time 2%-year-old daughter, Y a e 1, and a 5-month-old son, Adam. limit, the exit permit Is cancelled. According to Soviet regulaThe Fermans will make their . Dr. Gerald Ferman tions, a hew application for an exit permit can be made only- after home iff Des Moines after and daughter, Yael ; two years from the date of .any such cancellation. ' -t Oct. 1. The sources said a Jew named Feldman was called to a visa Mr. Rubin, Federation pres- tion of the new-executive director. Mr. Rubin said that all office and told to pay the required sum forthwith on pain of canthe commissions of the Feder- cellation of his exit permit. It was not learned whether he was in ation can benefit from the experience, the wide range :of tho category of Russian Jews for whom such fees have been sub« knowledge, and the cultural stantially raised as of August 3. background that Dr. Ferman can bring to the community,
Dr. Ferman Named Director of Des Moines Federation
Des Moines —Sidney Rubin, • president of the Jewish Welfare Federation, has announced the appointment of Dr. Gerald S. Ferman to the position of executive director of the Federation.1 Dr. F e r m a n is currently 1 associate professor of political science at Western Illinois; University at Macomb, HI. He served as an instructor of political science at St. Josephs -College in Philadelphia, Pa., for three years, and taught civics and history in the Dimona High School, Dimona, Israel, for one year. - Dr. Ferman, a native of New York, received a degree in political science from City College o'f New York in 1963,, attended J e w i s h Theological Seminary in New York, and in 1965 was awarded an M.A. in political science from .He-
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Israeli Teachers Threaten Strike
Members of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, dressed in cans and gowns, stage a "slave auction of Soviet Jews" at the Soviet U.N. Mission to demonstrate the ransom-like fees demanded of Soviet Jews with higher education seeking to leave. Russian Jews now call themselves "the new slaves of the 20th century." ,
Tel Aviv (JTA)—A teachers' strike'that would affect'•600,000 primary and secondary school cliildren all over Israel, loomed this, week, .three days before the,, new school: year is scheds , uled to begin.; .•',-.•.• : The: teachers' union has presented 80 demands r a n g j n g ! from; classroom conditions-and /' the number of pupils per class to wages and.hours.of work./J '•:•:.• The union said the strike Vwbuld affect only eight cities,including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and Beersheba. But high . school teachers said ^hevwallt-••!• out would be nation-wldei if no Bettiementis ^e,achedr;^rl*i?f|;ii
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