We shared an identity. We had united ourselves for a 1day fast and memorial servicea commemoration of the Holocaust of five decades beforeto remind our own Nation and the rest of the world that freedom. an endowment so precious to us all. is not universal. As we each proudly wore the name of a different Soviet refusenika person who is repeatedly refused permission to emigrate from Russiathe realities of personal freedom hastened my heartbeat. I continued to visualize the words and message printed on a Bnai Brith pamphlet that I had studied: "Let my people go. If you forget them. the world will forget them." I had learned that these freedomseeking Russian Jews. who only seek the right to practice their culture and faith without harassment. are isolated. alone and persecuted.
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