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PAGE 6 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE September 26, 1986
IN THE
BEGINNING.
it started with a glimmer of light,
A spark of interest-
An interest in...
•Making New Friends
•Leadership Training
•Athletics
•Judaism
•Social Awareness
•Community Involvement
•Fun
And then came...
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Soviet woman gets caught
in a cat-and-mouse game
by Susan Birnbaum
NEW YORK (JTA)—A Soviet
Jewish woman, whose brother is
gravely ill in Tel Aviv, has been
caught up in a bureaucratic cat-
and-mouse game in which she faces
a tragic dilemma of having to
choose between her brother and
her husband.
Inessa Flerova, 37, of Moscow,
is the only person who might be
capable of donating bone marrow
to her brother, Michael Shirman,
31, who is stricken with myeloid
leukemia, a bone marrow malig
nancy that is fatal in young adults.
His sole chance for survival of the
disease rests in the successful trans
plant of bone marrow from a close
relative.
Flerova, after staging a hunger
strike last month that attracted
international publicity and promp
ted the intervention of American
congressmen, was granted a visa to
immigrate to Israel with her two
daughters. But, in a nightmare of
Kafkaesque proportions, Soviet
authorities refused to allow her
husband, Victor Flerov, to accom
pany his family.
Flerov’s visa is being held back
on grounds that his father has
allegedly withheld the necessary
written statement absolving his 38-
year-old son of financial obliga
tions. Flerov has not seen his father
since he was very young, according
to family accounts.
Word came from Tel Aviv Mon
day that Flerov has begun a hunger
strike to protest the Soviet authori
ties’ refusal to allow him to join his
family in going to Israel.
Initially, Flerova did not request
permission to emigrate, only a
temporary visa that would allow
her to go to Israel for testing for
compatibility and, possible bone
marrow transplant.
Her application for that permis
sion was beset by a series of obsta
cles, according to Shirman him
self, in letters he has written to an
American doctor, Kenneth Prager,
and to Prager’s New Jersey Con
gressman, Robert Torricelli, both
of whom have intervened through
written petitions to Soviet officials,
to American government officials
in the highest echelons, and to the
doctors who attended to the vic
tims of the Chernobyl nuclear
disaster.
Shirman says his sister’s request
to OVIR, the Soviet emigration
office, for a temporary visa to go to
Israel unaccompanied was rejected
on two separate occasions; that her
personal request to Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev went unans
wered; that the authorities pressed
her for her entire family to apply
for visas; and that the family was
pressed to apply to emigrate, osten
sibly a longer process and a com
plicated one, taking up precious
time that was so necessary f or
Shirman’s life.
Shirman says that the Flerov’s
application for a visa has rendered
the family “enemies of the people”
and has affected their lives terribly.
Flerova’s request for a “character
reference” from work (she is an
economist) was rejected and has
caused her to be “brutally perse
cuted” at her job by “senior functi
onaries...waging a shameful cam
paign of humiliation and slander
against her,” Shirman said. Shir
man, in letters to Prager and Tor
ricelli, wrote that “1 am not at
peace with myself’ because he feels
that he is “the cause of sorrows
being visited upon her (Flerova)
and her family.”
Prager, a cardio-pulmonary
specialist at Columbia-Presbyter-
ian Medical Center in New York,
became familiar with the Flerova-
Shirman case while in Moscow in
March and April.
Prager stressed the desperate
nature of Shirman’s case. At this
point, time is absolutely of the
essence, he said. With each passing
day, Shirman’s chances of survival
grow slimmer and slimmer. What
was diagnosed in February as a 70
percent chance of survival if the
transplant was done then has
dwindled to about 30 percent, ac
cording to medical evaluations.
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