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File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0031
Abstract
Materials related to Boris Pénson. Known for poster art, he and his family moved to Riga, Latvia, in 1950 where he graduated from an art school. In 1967 he decided to emigrate to Israel but was refused a visa. After endless requests and refusals, he joined the Dymshits group which planned the hijacking of an aircraft to escape from the Soviet Union. In June 1970, together with other members of the group, he was arrested by the KGB at the Smolny airport. In December 1970, at the 1st...
Dates:
1968-1978
File — Box: B093.01.0004
Identifier: B093.01.0004
Abstract
(44) file folders include: ''Exodus'' publication; ''Hadassah''; American publications; Miscellaneous publications; Soviet jewry; Individual POC files; Soviet prisoners of conscience; Assorted people; Assorted biographies; Newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0001
Abstract
Various materials and clippings from "Exodus," published by Soviet Jewry Action Group, located in San Francisco.
Dates:
1974
File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0026
Abstract
Fact sheet and materials related to David Azbel who was a Jewish dissident and political prisoner in the Soviet Union.
Dates:
1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0027
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0028
Abstract
Fact sheet and materials related to Ephim Davidovich, a Jewish prisoner of conscience.
Dates:
1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0032
Abstract
Materials related to Boris Pénson. Known for poster art, he and his family moved to Riga, Latvia, in 1950 where he graduated from an art school. In 1967 he decided to emigrate to Israel but was refused a visa. After endless requests and refusals, he joined the Dymshits group which planned the hijacking of an aircraft to escape from the Soviet Union. In June 1970, together with other members of the group, he was arrested by the KGB at the Smolny airport. In December 1970, at the "First...
Dates:
1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0035
Abstract
Materials related to prisoner of conscience Mariana Tiemkin.
Dates:
1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0003.0021
Abstract
Materials related to "The Night of the Murdered Poets." The Night of the Murdered Poets was the execution of thirteen Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on 12 August 1952. The arrests were first made in September 1948 and June 1949. All defendants were accused of espionage and treason as well as many other crimes. The Colorado Committee was the first in the U.S.to commemorate the execution when a three day fast was held on the steps of the state capitol...
Dates:
1968-1978
