Speaker. I would like to bring to the attention of my colleagues in Congress. in fact. my fellow Americans. the plight of Berta Isaakovna and Yakov Mikhailovich Rudin. Jewish refuseniks who have been denied emigration from the Soviet Union since Berta. 57. is a physician and Yakov. 55. is a marine engineer. They are presently living in Odessa. the Ukraine. U.S.S.R. Both have been fired from their jobs and denied employment since September 1978. when they began collecting their immigration papers. The Rudins have been continually harassed and isolated from friends and neighbors by Soviet officials. Berta Rudin is seriously ill with heart disease as a result of the brutal and inhumane treatment from Soviet officials. She is in desperate need of medical care. which is being denied to her. The Rudins were not allowed to apply for emigration in 1977. when their sons. Sergey and Leonid applied. Thus. in March 1978 their sons left the Soviet Union without their parents.
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