Father Seeks Whereabouts of His Daughter Believed to Have Been Abducted by Brazilian Security Police

Majer Kucinski of Sao Paulo Brazil, a well-known writer and considered one of the world’s leading authorities on the writings of Sholom Aleichem, has appealed to Brazilian army officials to help locate his daughter who has been missing for two years and believed to be one of the many persons kidnapped by Brazilian security forces, according to information given here to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency by friends of the family.

Ana Rosa Kucinski Silva was an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Sao Paulo at the time she and her husband, Wilson, a journalist, disappeared in April, 1974. Her family believes that she was picked up by security police, but they have not been able to get an official account of her fate.

In an affort to do so, her 72-year-old father recently surprised reporters in Sao Paulo when he appeared at the conclusion of a meeting between Gen. Dilermando Gomez Monteiro and Archbishop Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns and asked the commanding general of Brazil’s 2nd Army Corps for help in locating his daughter. Gomez Monteiro had met with Cardinal Arns at the cleric’s official residence in return for the Cardinal’s highly publicized meeting with the general to express his concern over the violation of human rights in the Sao Paulo region. Cardinal Arns has been the most outspoken critic of the government’s violation of human rights.

Kucinski told reporters who were covering the meeting that “Despite not having received any notice from Brazilian authorities during these two years, everything indicates that the security organs are responsible for her disappearance.”