After the war. both mother and son were eligible for repatriation to Poland. and they hurried to Moscow from the remote region where she worked as a veterinarianonly to arrive at the Polish Embassy 1 week too late. In 1957. a bureaucratic delay in obtaining proof of Polish citizenship again prevented them from returning to her native land. In 1977 Sergels mother emigrated to the United States. In 1979. after the obligatory 5 year wait that followed his military service. Sergei and his family requested permission to emigrate. Their application was denied. and Sergei was dismissed from his position as a petroleum and gas engineer at a research institute in Moscow. He is now serving a 9year sentence in a labor camp. Eight years have already passed since Sergeis mother last saw her son and his wife. Vera Shiporina. and their two children. Last winter. 28 members of this body signed a telegram urging Soviet authorities to grant clemency to Sergel Fishel and to permit him and his family top emigrate. Today I repeat that call: allow this family. from whom war took father. husband. and home. to be united once again.*
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