He served his prison term in a Perm labor camp. He was deprived. for intermittent periods. of receiving parcels and packages. and of purchasing needed commodities from the prison commissary. He saw his wife and daughter only once before they emigrated to Israel at his insistence in 1973. His aging father remains in the Soviet Union because the invitation to join them "was not from close enough relatives." After his release from prison in July 1979 Isaak Shkolnik hoped that. like many other prisoners of conscience. he would be allowed to emigrate and join his family in Israel. He continues to apply for a visa. and his request is continually denied. The Soviets have told him he cannot live with his father in Lvov. but must return to Vinnitsa where he was living when arrested. His family in Israel continues to do what it can.
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