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Many Zionists in Russia Are Sentenced to Exile

May 6, 1926
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(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Many members of the Executive Committee of the He’chalutz, the organization of Palestine pioneers in Soviet Russia, although the He’chalutz is a legalized organization, were sentenced to exile and detention, according to reports received here at the He’chalutz headquarters.

Simonowsky, a member of the committee, was sentenced to three years exile in Siberia. Altschuler, Zerubabel and Yevserichin were sentenced to detention for three years in a concentration camp.

Galperin, Kletschnosky, Calmansohn, Frumkin and Misses Brodskaya, Robinson, Goland and Neida, members of the Zionist Socialist group were exiled to Siberia for a term of three years.

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