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Sentenced to ten years of labor camp in 1970, Sylva was released in 1974. Her husband, Edward Kuznetsov and Mark Dymshitz were given the death sentence, later commuted to 15 years of labor camp. Center right is Lynn Singer, chairman of the LICSJ. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/dac7257c-a265-4fbe-aa8b-77770c498dbc/Leonid+Sharansky+and+Solomon+Albers%2C+Moscow+1978.jpg Photo Gallery The street outside Moscow's Chorale Synagogue was the unofficial meeting ground for refuseniks and their Western visitors. Here I am in Moscow, consulting with Solomon Alber and Leonid Sharansky in the fall of 1978, six months after his brother, Natan, had been sentenced to 13 years of prison and hard labor on the spurious grounds of spying for the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/1613508956642-ELAJL1YWGPJ57HQDI5WB/Free+Sharansky+Now.png Photo Gallery Arrested in 1977, Anatoly Sharansky was convicted for treason and sentenced to 13 years of labor camp. An iconic symbol of the struggle for human rights, he was released in 1986 after his wife, Avital, spearheaded a world-wide campaign for his release. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/1615134152625-9CIJCS8RVJTNAUVSMIWX/Mikoyan.jpg Photo Gallery Marillyn Talman and Pamela Cohen spar with Soviet press officer, Vladimir Mikoyan, at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, over the Sharansky case. March 1984 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/2f437f13-6485-48e5-9934-fa67efa5dbf4/Porter+at+Scharansky+dedication.jpg Photo Gallery Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry dedication of the Sharansky Free Speech Public Forum in Chicago's Lincoln Park. Marillyn Tallman, co- chairman of Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry and Pam Cohen with Congressman John Edward Porter, co-chair of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/f0d7e030-50db-4c37-8b69-2ec9d47660b2/1981%3B+Lynn+Singer%2C+Rita+Eker-0001.jpg Photo Gallery 1981. Union of Council for Soviet Jewry Meeting In Israel. Pam Cohen, Lynn Singer, UCSJ president, Rita Eker and Margaret Regal of London's 35's Women's Campaign for Soviet Jews. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/1620160188829-WHYFKVI17AUXYHMPZRDO/Prisoners%2Bfor%2BZion%2B1973.jpg Photo Gallery The priority of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews was the release of Jewish refuseniks who were arrested and sentenced to prison and Siberian hard labor camps for their emigration activity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/5e26b947-1794-4320-8e40-e1d0efc8471e/Bury+Apathy+-+demonstration+for+Yuli+Edelstein.jpg Photo Gallery 1984. Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry leads a horse-drawn hearse bearing a casket, symbolically to bury public for imprisoned refusenik Hebrew teacher, Yuli Edelstein who would later serve as Speaker of the Knesset in Israel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/26ac81c2-4cb2-448f-b568-604a83cdffdb/scanswebsite-0008.jpg Photo Gallery sketch of prison cell by Josef Latinsky, Moscow refusenik https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/733b51de-ad1b-41f3-9f37-00b9c2bf3db4/Mendelevich.JPG Photo Gallery Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich, Leningrad trial defendant who spent 11 years in prison and labor camps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/08208f54-586f-4892-853b-97f6379dc0f9/1981+Anatoly+Altman%2C+former+Leningrad+trial+defendent-0003.jpg Photo Gallery Former Leningrad trial defendant, Anatoly Altman in Israel, 1983 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/38227e5b-4570-4ba3-9cdd-e013c40f2cfc/1981+Shirley+and+Hillel+Butman-0001.jpg Photo Gallery Shirley Goldstein and Pamela Cohen with former Leningrad trial defendant, Hillel Butman; Jerusalem, 1983 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/404b1baf-6065-4e7e-b5f1-d47b8cc80b0a/prayer+vigil%2C+Reykjavic%2C+Iceland%2C+1988.jpg Photo Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/1619646244358-GGC8SCID52KHM6T6I65G/IMG_0029.jpg Photo Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/12decbac-da55-4534-be97-b58d55923976/My+brother+at+the+Freedom+for+Volvovsky+Day%2C+Highland+Park.jpg Photo Gallery The author's brother, Chip Braun, at Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry's "Volvovsky Day" in Highland Park, Illinois. Hundreds helium balloons were released carrying the message "Freedom for the Volvovsky family." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/9ade5094-7271-4440-bf24-ec8185601146/with+Sasha+Shipov+and+Yuri+Shtern%2C+Soviet+Jewry+Education+and+Information+Center%2C+in+Jerusalem.jpg Photo Gallery The author in Israel with the Soviet Jewry Education and Information Center's first chairmen, Sasha Shipov and Yuri Shtern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/64deebc4-1325-4f36-931c-7bede282be70/IMG_1866.jpeg Photo Gallery Former Leningrad refuseniks Gregory Kanovich and Lev Utevsky who were my Finish connection and consultants in Israel, 1983 . Read the full story in "Hidden Heroes" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/baba5fb6-ec15-438f-92c8-bc0a4ba67f45/Boris+Blitshtein.jpg Photo Gallery Boris Blitshein, campaigning in the West for his father, refusenik Lev Blitshtein and Rita Eker, 35's Women's Committee for Soviet Jews. See Hidden Heroes for the full story of Lev Blitshtein. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/eee111a2-e43e-4d5f-8bae-12b194cb5438/Hinda+Cantor+%28South+Florida+Conference+on+Soviet+Jewry%29+with+former+refusenik+Alex+Ioffe%2C+Israel+1988.jpg Photo Gallery South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry's chairman, Hinda Cantor, former refusenik Alec Ioffe and Pam Cohen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/43031840-47b4-477e-9bb6-9de3a3f44e31/Micah+at+his+desk+.jpg Photo Gallery Micah Naftalin, national director of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, at work at his desk in Washington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/3a0f6478-77b6-4240-b95a-109886ede006/Leonid+Stonov.JPG Photo Gallery Leonid Stonov, Moscow refusenik leader who became the International Director of the Union of Council for Soviet Jews' after he received permission to emigrate in 1990. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/1620253635895-3K9OVHJWZZUI8ACWZTSX/UCSJ%252Band%252BSSSJ%252527s%252Bpress%252Bconference%252Bat%252BSoviet%252BEmbassy.jpg Photo Gallery Union of Councils and Student Struggle's press conference at the Soviet Embassy in Washington. From left, SSSJ Chairman Rabbi Avi Weiss, Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), UCSJ executive director Micah Naftalin and Senator Dennis Deconcini (D-AZ). March 23, 1988. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/1620161762577-UOOI4QVK3UWQN1FRWLWF/Commission%2Bof%2BInquiry.jpg Photo Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/d5683bb7-9e35-4599-b611-3ae855d2df6b/DSCN2954.JPG Photo Gallery Marillyn Tallman and Susie Futterman at lunch meeting at CASJ with Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry's Glenn Richter (right) and Henry Gerber (left). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/fb4ee7a5-bf3a-42e2-80dd-79550ca0f112/B259Shtern.jpg Photo Gallery Yuri Shtern, Soviet Jewry Education and Information Center, Jerusalem https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/2a8a3eea-dc44-4a8c-adfb-8eb02acbe09d/Yakov+Gorodesky+arrives+in+Israel.jpeg Photo Gallery Yakov Gorodetsky arrives in Israel, February 1986 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/25706fc9-5028-4414-87dd-b19c0d2921ae/Chicago+Sun+Times+Forum+1986.jpg Photo Gallery The Chicago Sun Times holds a public forum on the plight of Soviet Jews featuring former refuseniks, Yuri Shtern and Yakov Gorodetsky. October 1986 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/d5316fd6-26e0-4b38-9ba3-e222a67e8869/Chicago+Sun+Times+Forum+1986+page+2.jpg Photo Gallery Sun Times moderator, Jay Bushinsky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/1614184492436-NCQ9B9IHLWGIJS9P7VDT/DSCN6107.jpg Photo Gallery Luba Bar Menachem https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/c7d2e712-07cd-47a7-9fc5-a593257c0e2c/addressing+the+Leningrad+Duma.jpg Photo Gallery My speech at the Leningrad Duma. 1990. See Hidden Heroes for the full story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/6984578e-745a-49e2-b499-43bb4450baea/Moscow+meeting+annual+meeting+logo+89.jpg Photo Gallery The UCSJ convenes the historic first open meeting between Jews from the West and Jews throughout the former Soviet Union. 1989 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/a36742ad-16b7-460f-9678-84edb853b9f0/Micah+and+I+with+US+Ambassador+Jack+Matlock%2C+Moscow%2C+1989.jpg Photo Gallery US Ambassador to the USSR, with Micah and me at the UCSJ meeting in Moscow, 1989 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/eb7a4978-d68e-4b86-93b5-a0bcf182bec1/Annual+Meeting+in+Moscow%2C+Janie+Fisher%2C+Congressional+Helsinki+Committee.jpg Photo Gallery Panel discussion at UCSJ's meeting in Moscow. Janie Fisher, Congressional Helsinki Committee. 1989 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/33c6de98-fea6-4d47-a459-55c9ae96c8e6/receiving+the+refusenik%27s+Medal+of+Honor%2C+Moscow+1989.jpg Photo Gallery Leonid Stonov presents me with the Medal of Honor on behalf of refuseniks at our Moscow meeting. Seat left is Marillyn Tallman and Rhoda Levine, Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/1ea86b1f-0a3b-4c5b-b577-78cda8c11c9f/my+award.JPG Photo Gallery My treasured honor.... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/8cd9ccbe-76e3-4c3e-8c8e-85e691b5a37f/Moscow+Annual+meeting.jpg Photo Gallery Moscow Meeting. Far left is Micah Naftalin. Right to left stands my husband, Lenny, Leonid Stonov, Sharon Shneider, Long Island committee, Hinda Cantor, South FloridaC Conference and refusenik Boris Kelman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/1615842165780-RVN3YCLPMPW9FVI7EGTP/latinsky%2Bportrait.jpg Photo Gallery sketch of me by refusenik, Yosef Latinsky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/732eadb6-593b-4f2a-9f43-a6c7a0d43f82/Refusenik+physicist%2C+Victor+Fulmacht.jpg Photo Gallery Consulting with Moscow refusenik, Victor Fulmach. Seat is David Waksberg, Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry. UCSJ Meeting in Moscow, 1989 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/021c621e-d58b-43de-89b6-3d62554cc3e1/Annual+Meeting+in+Moscow%2C++with+Leonid+Stonov+and+refusenik+Mark+Kotlyar.jpg Photo Gallery Friday night Shabbat dinner in Moscow united Jews from around the world in joy. UCSJ Moscow Meeting, 1989 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/6698a2a8-9990-486c-8644-2a1d58846379/Call+to+Tanya+Zunshine+from+Congressman+John+Porter%27s+office.jpg Photo Gallery Message call to Tanya Zunshine in Riga from the desk of Congressman John Porter after she had been knocked to the ground by KGB. For full story see Hidden Heroes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/d0b4fac0-ed0d-4711-98ed-78dfd6b439ec/scanswebsite-0006.jpg Photo Gallery from Arno Penzias, a supporter and author of the Big Bang Theory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/1672366a-a82a-4590-8295-2037d7a24f4e/Penzias.jpg Photo Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/9250497e-b222-42c6-9d88-deca0872e95f/Begun.jpg Photo Gallery Note from Josef Begun after5 serving 3 sentences in labor camps for teaching Hebrew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/7eeeb609-fe5d-4ff7-bf70-f61062a58c67/my+office+at+CASJ.jpg Photo Gallery UCSJ's office at Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/e0347762-14fe-441c-bb51-a3e47daf545e/Rescue+jin+In+Action+Chicago+Tribune+92.jpg Photo Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/1615842857805-36LWFC8CKN7OE9QKO3NP/NYT%252C%2B1987.jpg Photo Gallery Micah and my New York Times op-ed piece the establishment found objectionable. See Hidden Heroes for the full story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/fd22dddb-1fef-4e51-a226-1fa3c5a43b74/UCSJ+strategy+session+after+privatization+of+our+Moscow+Bureau.jpg Photo Gallery Consultation at the UCSJ Washington office after our Moscow Bureau for Human Rights had been "privatized" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/a6d80807-c719-409a-b38b-d07429a348ef/Meylach+Sheykhet+on+a+visit+from+Lviv%2C+Lenny+and+me%2C+Judy+Balint%2C+June+and+Ron+Daniels%2C+Jerusalem.jpg Photo Gallery Friends and colleagues in Jerusalem...Meylach Sheykhet Lviv, Ukraine; Lenny and me, Judy Balint, June and Ron Daniels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/18d81338-7825-4638-9096-ab6ea2d347d2/Yitzhak+Kogan.jpg Photo Gallery Rabbi Yitzhok Kogan, former Leningrad refusenik at our Jerusalem apartment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/c5bcb465-ae23-4465-8da5-3ede5095a0f0/Sophia+Kogan.jpg Photo Gallery Sophia Kogan, former Leningrad refusenik. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/2d253fc8-42ad-4115-9d85-e7cd033103cc/Evgeny+Lein%2C+Jerusalem.jpg Photo Gallery Evgeny Lein, former Leningrad refusenik. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/a384880d-c5a2-4696-86ca-4b9be4df2472/+Together+with+Evgeny+Lein+Jerusalem.jpg Photo Gallery Evgeny Lein with me in Jerusalem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/9865879f-34c4-4d45-945c-954fa50f2896/Zev+Meshkov%2C+former+%2522Poor+Relative%2522+in+Jerusalem.JPG Photo Gallery With Zev Meshkov, former Poor Relative, in Israel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/02369256-0593-4d33-a58c-b5fe192dfe65/former+UCSJ++and+Bay+Area+Council+president%2C+Morey+Shapira.JPG Photo Gallery Morey Schapira, former UCSJ president, Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/c2869e1f-be31-43f0-bfed-ff2bf568dbeb/Dina+Beilina%2C+Michael+Sherbourne%2C+Rae+Sharfman.JPG Photo Gallery Former Moscow refusenik Dina Beilina, Michael Sherbourne and Rae Sharfman, co-founder, Detroit Action Committee for Soviet Jewry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/687a4d2b-e6aa-4ed2-8c76-582250c39013/Lenny+and+Michael+Sherbourne.JPG Photo Gallery Michael Sherbourne, preeminent London activist with Lenny in Jerusalem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/b6757b13-2eeb-4d3e-a65d-10013c9effd0/Aba+and+Ida+Taratuta%2C+Jerusalem+2007.png Photo Gallery former Leningrad activists, Ida and Aba Taratutal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/0ebaab4e-3091-41a4-9843-62ed5ae52256/Moscow+Bureau.jpg Photo Gallery UCSJ makes history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/30f9a386-97fc-4197-bbc2-080ecc7ac58b/CASJ+closes+it%27s+doors.jpg Photo Gallery https://www.hiddenheroesthebook.com/videos daily 0.75 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6004863ac8cd610112a6266a/1616167903026-ZJPEG6MAXRW3P7VN2V8P/Screen+Shot+2021-03-19+at+11.29.38+AM.png Videos https://www.hiddenheroesthebook.com/letters daily 0.75 2021-04-25 https://www.hiddenheroesthebook.com/links daily 0.75 2021-04-30 https://www.hiddenheroesthebook.com/reviews daily 0.75 2022-06-15