The harsh treatment that she has endured reminds all of us that the Soviet Union continues to deny basic rights to Soviet Jews. So long as these and other injustices exist. it is difficult for the world to believe that any real human rights exist in the Soviet Union. Ida Nudel. the only Jewish woman being held prisoner of conscience in the Soviet Union. first attempted to emigrate in 1971. After her request was denied she began her heroic efforts to support Soviet Jews who had been jailed for their beliefs. For the next 7 years. she was harassed. interrogated. and falsely branded a criminal by Soviet officials. Finally. she was arrested for "malicious hooliganism" for hanging a banner outside her Moscow home that read "KGB Give Me My Visa." She was sentenced to 4 years of internal exile in Sibera in 1978. The only female among 60 criminals. Ida slept with an ax under her bed to protect herself.
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