We quote one such eyewitness testimony: Edella Sherman. born 1944. USSR. Jewess. who lived until her emigration to Israel in the town of Oryol. teacher by profession. has an eightyearold child. arrived in Israel in November. 1978. lives in Absorption Centre Aba Hushi in Haifa. was imprisoned in a camp for women during the period of 1976 through 1978. Question. Reason for your arrest and conviction? Answer. In 1976 I received an invitation to emigrate to Israel from my mother who had left for Israel before me. and from this moment the KGB began to persecute me. In the beginning I did not pay much attention to this. When I travelled to the town of Kaliningrad (formerly Kenigsberg) on a personal matter I was detained by the militia and held under guard in a preliminary detention cell from June 21 to July 13. 1976 (i.e. 22 days) without a warrant for my arrest. (Note of the Centre: According to the law. a person may be held under guard for no more than 2 days without a warrant for his arrest.) I spent 12 days in solitary confinement and then in a common cell: filthy. covered with fleas. among prostitutes.
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