Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry

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Public materials related to the Embassy of Israel.

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Materials related to the newsletter "Focus in Soviet Jewry," published by the International League for the Repatriation of Russian Jews in London. The League assisted Russian Jews to emigrate to Israel.

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Materials related to Hadassah, a women's Zionist organization.

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Fact sheet and materials related to Ruth Alexandrovich. 24-year-old Ruth Alexandrovich was a heroine of the Jewish Resistance in Riga, Latvia. On October 7, 1970, a week before her wedding, the KGB imprisoned her for years before she and her fiance were allowed to immigrate to Israel.

Abstract Materials related to Dr. Isaac Poltinnikov. Dr. Poltinnikov was an eye surgeon at Novosibirsk Medical University when he sought permission to immigrate to Israel. He was dismissed from the university and imprisoned on and off. After seven years of harrassment, his wife and daughter Victoria became paranoid and refused to believe that they had finally received permission to emigrate. After Isaac Pollinnikov joined his daughter Eleanor in Israel, his wife starved and his daughter Victoria...

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Newspaper clippings related to Soviet Jews immigrating to Israel and to the United States.