Against the backdrop of an apparent new Soviet hard line on Jewish emigration, a group of public officials joined today in a plea on behalf of the “prisoners of conscience” held captive by the Soviets because of their desire to leave the USSR. They took part in ceremonies on Fifth Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, that were sponsored by the Greater New York and National Conferences on Soviet Jewry, whose chairmen are Kings County District Attorney Eugene Gold and Stanley H. Lowell, respectively. Wearing yellow Star of David badges symbolic of eternal Jewish persecution, city, state and federal officials were joined by Mrs. David Chernoglaz, whose husband is in a Soviet prison charged with “anti-government activity” and former prisoner Aharon Shpilberg, 35, who spent two years in a Soviet prison camp. They began a two-day hunger strike in solidarity with the POCs.
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