Shcharansky said. On this happiest of days of our lives. I am not going to forget those who I left in the camps. in the prisons. who are still in exile or who still continue their struggle for their right to emigrate. for their human rights. In my district in San Diego there is a family who has waited nine years for the release of Naum Kogan and his family from the Soviet Union. Naums sister. Anessa Weintraub. their parents. her husband and two children were able to emigrate to the United States in 1976. Naum. his wife Zhanna and their 12yearold twins Yevgeny and Elena. requested visas in 1977. but were denied. Naum. 39. was a basketball star for Odessa University in the Ukraine. He went to work at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow doing research in microelectronics for satellites. His wife Zhanna was an engineer with the Institute of Communications. Labeled refuseniks for applying for visas in 1977. both lost their jobs and have been surviving through Zhannas sewing and small electronics jobs Naum has been able to do. But at the moment Naum is suffering from kidney disease and is very near kidney failure. He needs an operation that he cannot get in the Soviet Union.
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