Ida Nudel has been in the forefront of the movement of Jews in the Soviet Union who have asked to leave the U.S.S.R. for other lands. For nearly 2 years. Ida Nudel has been the victim of a cruel and unjust Soviet system guilty of attempting to humiliate and silence these emigration efforts. Today we gather to commemorate her birthday even though she cannot be with us to celebrate it. Ida Nudel. an economist who applied to emigrate to Israel after experiencing antiSemitism at her job. among the citizenry. and in the press. discovered on June 1. 1978. that she was being kept under house arrest. In protest. she placed a sign on her balcony 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 had been convicted.
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