Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry

Fact sheet and materials related to David Azbel who was a Jewish dissident and political prisoner in the Soviet Union.

Fact sheet and materials related to Dina Beilina, a Jewish Soviet disident imprissoned by the Soviet Union. In 1978, after seven years, Dina Beilina, considered the USSR’s leading woman Jewish refusnik, received an exit visa to Israel.

Fact sheet and materials related to Ephim Davidovich, a Jewish prisoner of conscience.

Materials related to prisoner of conscience Mariana Tiemkin.

Materials related to ransom or diploma tax related to Refuseniks trying to get a visa to leave the Soviet Union.

Newspaper clippings related to the Soviet Jewish Dissident Protest.

Contains materials on the Jackson-Vanik 1974 Trade Act Amendment that in part made trade between the United States and the Soviet Union conditioned upon Soviets relaxing restrictions on Jewish emigration. The bill in the House of Representatives was the Mills-Vanik and in the Senate was the Jackson bill. Members of the Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry pushed for the Amendment to prevent the Soviet Union from charging exorbitant fees to Soviet Jews trying to emigrate.