The Soviet Jewry program is designed with the Intention of teaching the children what they can do to help those who are denied permission to leave the Soviet Union. Among other things. the children have written to U.S. Government leaders as well as to Premier Andropov in an effort to secure an exit visa for the Nepomnishsky family. They have also corresponded with the family and with other Soviet Jews and collected funds to provide for their assistance. Finally. they are holding a rally this month to demonstrate their support. The schools adopted family. Yehudit Nepomnishsky and her parents. are truly in need of this support. The family has been the subject of intense harassment by the KGB because they have applied for emigration and because Yehudit attempts to teach Hebrew in her hometown of Odessa. Since their application for emigration in 1979. the familys apartment has been searched and ransacked on several occasions. Yehudits identification card has been confiscated and their phone has been ripped from the wall. Additionally. they have been the subJect of threats of internal deportation as well as threats against their lives. The Soviet Jewry programs director Mrs. DiamondSpiegal visited the adopted family during her 1980 trip to the U.SS.R.
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