RUDY BoscHWITZ. who has so ably coordinated the effort this year. Last March. I reported to this body on two of the poignant human stories which help personalize the grim Soviet emigration statistics. During a trip to the Soviet Union. I met Prof. Naum Maimon and his wife Inna in their modest Moscow apartment. They have been refused permission to emigrate since they first applied in 1975. Professor Maimon. a mathematician. was subsequently dismissed from his post at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics and. though in his seventies. suffered continued harassment and periods of house arrest. Throughout his ordeal. his resolve has never wavered nor trust in his ultimate success abandoned him. Ida Nudel. a woman of extraordinary character and compassion. has been denied permission to emigrate since 1971 when she applied to join her sister. Elena Friedman. who lives in Israel and with whom I have corresponded. Since that time she has endured a 4year exile to Siberia. deteriorating physical condition without recourse to adequate medical treatment. and further harassment including threats of State prosecution from local officials in Soviet Moldavia for the "crime" of entertaining visitors to her quarters during Jewish holiday periods.
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