Lev was beaten. arrested. and sentenced to 2 years in prison. After serving 1 year in prison and 1 year in a labor camp. Lev was twice again refused permission to emigrate. Since his return to Odessa in the Ukraine. a historical hotbed of antiSemitism. Lev began to encounter this brand of harassment. I refer to an article in the Odessa press. Znamia Kommunizma. entitled "The Fables and Fairy Tales of Lev Roitburd" which is clearly designed to impugn Levs character and to bring further persecution to him. his wife. and his son. My efforts and those of my constituents and the South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry who have been working to help the Roitburds and so many other Soviet "refuseniks" seeking permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union to Israel will continue until they are permitted to exercise their right under the Helsinki agreements to be reunited with their families. We must not waver in our commitments to Soviet Jewry. especially at this most difficult time when the human rights violations by the Soviet Union are becoming more widespread.@
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