Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Most of the records consist of letters, educational materials, bulletins and published newspaper accounts of activities by world-wide, national and local groups on behalf of Soviet Jews. Rhoda Friedman collected most of this material. The Records also have scrapbooks about Lillian Hoffman.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Various materials related to Valery Panov. Valery Panova and his wife Galina performed at the Kirov ballet in Leningrad until they applied for exit visas to Israel in 1972. They were expelled from the Kirov, imprisoned briefly, and allowed to leave Russia for Israel in 1974.

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Materials related to prisoner of conscience Mariana Tiemkin.

Abstract Materials related to Sylva Zalmanson. Sylva Zalmanson graduated Riga Polytechnic University in 1968 and worked as an engineer. Repeatedly requesting and being denied exit visas to leave the Soviet Union for Israel, Zalmanson and her husband Eduard Kuznetsov became members of a group of activists who came up with a plan to escape. The plan was called "Operation Wedding" or the Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking affair. The group of 16 would buy all the tickets to a local flight from a small airport...

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Fact sheet and materials related to Raiza Palatnick, who was a 35 year old Jewish librariian in Odessa, Ukraine who was imprisoned for distributing materials "slanderous" to the Soviet Union. Her confinement in isolation for five months began The 35's or Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry in 1971 in London, England. Raiza Palatnick was released from prison after two years and allowed to immigrate to Israel.

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Materials related to Soviet Prisoners of Conscience.