I conversed at some length with this gentle person when I was in Moscow in August 1975. She left in me that impression of heroism and saintliness which has earned her the title of the "guardian angel" of the refusniks. On June 1. 1978. having discovered that she was being kept under house arrest. Ida Nudel placed on her balcony a sign reading. "KGB. Give Me My Visa." Soon thereafter she was pelted with stones and harassed by a crowd shouting antiSemitic slogans. The next day. Nudel was charged with malicious hooliganism and within 3 weeks she was convicted on that charge.