This brave woman has been referred to as a "superhuman angel" by former fellow prisoners of the Siberian exile camps. She has tirelessly striven to help others around her. whether it be by obtaining and providing blankets and medicine to the needy. or by bouying the hopes of the spiritually exhausted. Ever since she first applied for emigration in 1971. she has been arrested and rearrested. She has been starved. beaten and treated for alcoholism when she suffered from a heart condition. After spending 4 years in internal exile in Siberia she was released in March and is once again trying to obtain an emigration visa to join her only close relative. a sister who lives in Israel. We must support the cause of Ida Nudel and the thousands and thousands like her who seek only to lead lives of simple dignity. We must urge the Soviet Union to reevaluate its policies and allow Ida Nudel the freedom of living without harassment or abuse.*
Keywords matched
emigration visa