Speaker. I want to take this opportunity to share with my colleagues the continuing horrors faced daily by Jewish Prisoners of Conscience caught in the Soviet Union. It is Important that Congress take a strong role in urging the Soviets to lessen the restrictions placed upon these refuseniks who wish to emigrate. Many of us have become personally active with the families of these people. many of whom are in Soviet prisons. One case in which I have been involved is that of Ida Nudel who applied to emigrate to Israel in 1971. Since then she has faced ongoing harrassment at the hands of the Soviet bureaucracy and spent 4 years in Internal exile in Siberia. I have recently received a letter from Idas sister in Israel. which I am placing in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. updating me on Idas situation.
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