Ida reapplied several times to join her sister. who is her only living relative. Refusals of her applications have been based on unfounded allegations that she was exposed to secrets while employed at the Moscow Institute of Hydrology and Microbiological Synthesis for Planning and Production where she performed routine duties. Idas anguish over Soviet emigration policies soon lead to her involvement as an active figure in the Jewish emigration movement. Her acts of charity and assistance to prisoners of conscience brought on repeated harassments from Soviet officials. Her efforts to publicly expose illegal actions taken by authorities in violation of prisoners rights and her public demonstrations in defense of the right of Jews to leave Russia and live in the country of their choice. led to Idas arrest on charges of malicious hooliganism in 1978.
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