Speaker. today I join with Mr. MRAZEK and my colleagues in remembering the separated families of the Soviet Union. who have not been permitted to reunite with their family members outside of the U.S.S.R. For several years I have been trying to help Ida Nudel obtain an exit visa so she may join her sister. Ilana Fridman. in Israel. Ms. Nudel has been trying to leave the U.S.S.R. for 15 years. since 1971. She has assisted other refusniks and their families. For her efforts. she has been denied an exit visa repeatedly. treated violently. arrested. tried. and sentenced to exile in Siberia. where she lived for 4 years. While there. she was beaten and then housed in a barrack lacking electricity. water. and heat at a time when temperatures dropped to 40 degrees below zero. When Ms.