During the era of detente of the 1970s. Abe Stolar applied to leave the Soviet Union and seek residence in Israel. In May 1975 the Soviet Government in fact granted the Stolar family the necessary exit visas and Abe and his family began to ship all of their worldly possessions to Israel with every expectation that by July 1975 they would be making a new life for themselves in Israel. But the Stolars in fact were hauled off their flight and told that the visas were not in order and that they would have to remain. They have lived the last 9 years as nonpersons in the Soviet Union. Without their household possessions. without the right to work. without the right to draw any earned pensions. they live from the charity of others.