I have worked with Blanche. along with the Long Island Committee for Soviet Jewry. on many occasions in efforts to aid Soviet Jews and I am continually impressed with the energy and commitment this woman devotes to this effort in the cause to preserve human rights. In early August 1984. Blanche Narby. along with Dr. Phyllis Pacheco of the Suffolk Jewish Communal Planning Council. and a group of 25 people set off on a tour of the Soviet Union. During the tour. Mrs. Narby and Dr. Pacheco would slip away from the tour to visit Soviet refuseniks. Soviet Jewish citizens who have been refused permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union. The women would bring the refuseniks books. newspapers. and other items difficult to obtain in the Soviet Union. They brought the refuseniks something else equally important.
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