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Refuseniks

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 131 Collections and/or Records:

POC/Zalmanson, Sylva, 1968-1978

 File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0037
Abstract Materials related to Sylva Zalmanson. Sylva Zalmanson graduated Riga Polytechnic University in 1968 and worked as an engineer. Repeatedly requesting and being denied exit visas to leave the Soviet Union for Israel, Zalmanson and her husband Eduard Kuznetsov became members of a group of activists who came up with a plan to escape. The plan was called "Operation Wedding" or the Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking affair. The group of 16 would buy all the tickets to a local flight from a small airport...
Dates: 1968-1978
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B093, Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry Records / Records / Box 4

Project Interference, 1967-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0003.0025
Abstract

Various materials related to Project Interference.

Dates: 1967-1978
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B093, Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry Records / Records / Box 3

Project Yached, 1967-1978

 File
Identifier: B093.01.0003.0026
Abstract

Various materials related to Project Yached. Yached means together, unity.

Dates: 1967-1978
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B093, Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry Records / Records / Box 3

Publications - American, 1964-1975

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0011
Abstract

Materials and various sources related to Soviet Jewry from American Publications.

Dates: 1964-1975
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B093, Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry Records / Records / Box 4

Publications - Miscellaneous, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0014
Abstract

Various sources and materials related to Soviet Jewry, from miscellaneous publications.

Dates: 1968-1978
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B093, Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry Records / Records / Box 4

Raiza Palatnick, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0029
Abstract

Fact sheet and materials related to Raiza Palatnick, who was a 35 year old Jewish librariian in Odessa, Ukraine who was imprisoned for distributing materials "slanderous" to the Soviet Union. Her confinement in isolation for five months began The 35's or Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry in 1971 in London, England. Raiza Palatnick was released from prison after two years and allowed to immigrate to Israel.

Dates: 1968-1978
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B093, Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry Records / Records / Box 4

Ransom and Trade, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0002.0011
Abstract

Materials related to ransom or diploma tax related to Refuseniks trying to get a visa to leave the Soviet Union.

Dates: 1968-1978
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B093, Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry Records / Records / Box 2

Records, 1968-1978

 Series
Identifier: B093.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Most of the records consist of letters, educational materials, bulletins and published newspaper accounts of activities by world-wide, national and local groups on behalf of Soviet Jews. Rhoda Friedman collected most of this material. The Records also have scrapbooks about Lillian Hoffman.

Dates: 1968-1978
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B093, Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry Records

Red Cross, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0017
Abstract

Materials related to the Red Cross regarding Soviet Jewry.

Dates: 1968-1978
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B093, Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry Records / Records / Box 4

Senator Henry Jackson, 1972-1975

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Identifier: B093.01.0005.0015
Abstract Miscellaneous material dealing with Senator Henry Jackson's activities on behalf of Soviet Jewry. Henry M. Jackson was a senator from Washington for 30 years. One of his accomplishments was the Jackson-Vanik Amendment to the 1974 Trade Act that made trade between the United States and the Soviet Union conditioned upon Soviets relaxing restrictions on Jewish emigration. Members of the Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry pushed for the Amendment to prevent the Soviet Union from...
Dates: 1972-1975
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B093, Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry Records / Records / Box 5

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