Mr. Speaker. I rise in support of Hous *t Concurrent Resolution 202. which urge .o the Soviet Union to allow Ida Nudel t emigrate to Israel. and for othe n purposes. Ida Nudel is a special case and is to i- tally symbolic of the kinds of difficultie - that are going on in the Soviet Union - She is the only Jewish female to be ex. iled because she tried to emigrate t4 1 Israel. and has become. in many ways to. - day. the symbol of countless individual . in the Soviet Union who are strugglin I to exercise their basic human rights. Ida Nudel first applied to emigrate t( e Israel in 1971. at which time she was re- fused permission to do so. lost her job was kept under surveillance. beaten. ant o kept in jail for 15day periods at leasl � five times. She has actually become the guardiar angel of prisoners of conscience. and a such has been given special attention b5 1 the Union of Councils of Soviet Jews. r the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. and many other organizations. Undaunted by the harassments and persecutions. Ida Nudel provided badly needed support to other prisoners of conscience who were imprisoned for their attempts to emigrate. She wrote to them. visited them. provided them with food and medicine. and interceded on their behalf with prison and camp authorities. She was arrested in 1978 and charged with "malicious hooliganism." convicted. and sentenced to 4 years in Siberian exile. Her crime was hanging a banner from her apartment window which said "KGB Give Me My Visa." and that was in desperation after 7 years of waiting to join her only living relatives. She is living now in absolutely deplorable conditions In the Soviet Union and the word is. from those who have an opportunity to get the word out of the Soviet Union. that she is desperately ill and may not live through another hard Siberian winter. That is the reason for this resolution which calls special attention to her case as symbolic of the plight of hundreds of thousands of people in the Soviet Union.
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