Ida Nudel was sentenced to serve a term of 4 years in exile in Siberia. I know many of you are familiar with her crime. She was convicted of "malicious hooliganism" for displaying from the balcony of her apartment a banner reading "KGB Grant Me My Visa." Actually. as she said of her sentencing. the real reason for her exile to the bleak wastelands of Siberia lay in the previous 7 years of her lifeyears Ida calls. "The most beautiful years of my life." In those 7 years Ida Nudelwho herself repeatedly had been refused permission to emigrate to Israeldevoted her time to the assistance of the other prisoners of ZionSoviet Jews denied their request to emigrate to Israel and imprisoned for their efforts. One of those prisoners. David Chernoglaz. said. after his release: "A person who has not been in prison cannot envisage what Ida Nudel meant to the prisoners. * * * there is no person in this world who has done more for Jewish prisoners." Now. for the past 2 years.
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