Speaker. this House is about to express its overwhelming concern over the fate of Ida Nudel. the "Guardian Angel" of the refuseniks in the Soviet Union. by urging the Soviet Government to terminate her exile in Siberia and permit her to leave the country to join her husband and sister in Israel. Passage of this resolution is so urgently needed if there is to be any hope to obtain Idas freedomindeed. to save her life. Although the Soviets have persecuted so many who have simply expressed a desire to emigrate. Ida Nudel has been subjected to the most monstrous indignities. She first applied to emigrate in 1971. Although her exit visa for Israel was denied. her sister. Elana Friedman. was permitted to leave. From that moment began an ordeal which resulted in her arrest. conviction. and internal exile for the "crimes" of "vandalism and malicious hooliganism" in 1978.
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