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Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry

 Organization

Found in 110 Collections and/or Records:

POC/ Panov, Valery, 1968-1978

 File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0042
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1968-1978

POC/Poltinnikov, Isaac, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0033
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...
Dates: 1968-1978

POC/Tiemkin, Marina, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0035
Abstract

Materials related to prisoner of conscience Mariana Tiemkin.

Dates: 1968-1978

POC/Zalmanson, Sylva, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0037
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...
Dates: 1968-1978

Project Interference, 1967-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0003.0025
Abstract

Various materials related to Project Interference.

Dates: 1967-1978

Project Yached, 1967-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0003.0026
Abstract

Various materials related to Project Yached. Yached means together, unity.

Dates: 1967-1978

Publications - American, 1964-1975

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0011
Abstract

Materials and various sources related to Soviet Jewry from American Publications.

Dates: 1964-1975

Publications - Miscellaneous, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0014
Abstract

Various sources and materials related to Soviet Jewry, from miscellaneous publications.

Dates: 1968-1978

Raiza Palatnick, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0029
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1968-1978

Ransom and Trade, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0002.0011
Abstract

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

Dates: 1968-1978

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Archival Object 109
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Jews, Soviet 108
Denver (Colo.) 76
Protest and social movements 54
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 23
Political prisoners 21