Iosif Mendelevich is reported to have subsisted throughout the Passover holiday on 300 grams of matzoh and water, according to information received by the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry. He is the only Jewish prisoner still in labor camps from the first and second Leningrad trials.
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