Two Soviet Jews who applied for visas to Israel have been arrested by the Soviet authorities on unknown charges, according to the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. They are Lazar Liubarsky, a Jewish activist from Rostov, the only known Jew there to attempt to emigrate to Israel, and Itzhak Shkolnik from Vinnitza in the Ukraine who was arrested by the Soviet police on July 5. Shkolnik was denounced at a meeting in his factory and accused of “subversive activities” after he applied for a visa.
The Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry reported yesterday that relatives of Jewish prisoners in Soviet labor camps are being denied visitation permits. The wife of David Chernoglaz, one of the Leningrad trial defendants, said she was denied a visit to her husband on the scheduled annual meeting day. The Soviet authorities were said to be trying to isolate the prisoners to prevent information from leaking out of the camps.
(Jewish sources in the Soviet Union report via London that five Jewish prisoners have been transferred from the Potma Prison Camp 19 in Soviet Mordovia to the Pernskaya Oblast camp in the Ural Mountains deep inside the USSR. Among them are Hillel Butman and Lev Yagman, defendants at the Leningrad trials. Boris Azernikov and Anatoli Godfreld are believed to be the only Jews remaining in Camp 19.)
A small home-made bomb was found in Jerusalem today near the Old City walls. The device was spotted by a watchman who called police. It was estimated to contain 300 grams of explosives. The bomb was safely defused.
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