The captain of a Soviet cruise ship accepted a parcel of vitamins and special food for Sylva Zalmanson Kuznetsov and promised a group of Jewish demonstrators that he would deliver it to her personally at the Potma forced labor camp where Mrs. Kuznetsov is serving a 10-year sentence.
The parcel was brought to the Southampton docks by members of the “Thirty-Five” Committee which is active on behalf of Jewish political prisoners in the USSR. They were permitted to board the Soviet liner, Estonia, and after distributing leaflets in English and Russian to crew members were received by the captain surnamed Delipsin who promised that Mrs. Kuznetsov will get the parcel which contains a diet for invalids.
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