Elana Fridman. after I adopted Ida Nudel as my Fourth Congressional Districts Prisoner of Conscience. With typical Soviet cruelty. Elana had been granted permission to emigrate to Israel nearly 8 years ago. but the Soviets refused to allow Ida Nudel that freedomin total violation of the human rights provision of the 1975 Helsinki accords. Last year. the Soviets sentenced Ida Nudel to 4 years in exile in Siberia for displaying a banner from her Moscow apartment which demanded: "KBG. give me my visa." Elana told me that Idas health had deteriorated alarmingly in the months of exile. "Every day may be Idas last." Elana warned me. "We are desperate. because she cannot survive another Siberian winter." The temperature plunges to 60 below zero during the winter months. and living conditions are primitive in the settlement where Ida is held in exile. Despite her ill health and terrible living conditions. Ida Nudels indomitable courage is unbroken.
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