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Refusenik Women in USSR (continued from page 8)

notebooks full of plans in code and many tasks ahead .of us.

Isolde Tufeld's husband is confined to his bed. He also desperately needs medication not available in the USSR. Last year, Isolde was central in organizing a hunger strike of the women's group on International Women's Day. Similar plans for this year were cancelled when the KGB called her and a few other leaders into their office and warned they'd be severely punished if another hunger strike occurred. Since many of the women had been imprisoned before, they feared severe sentences, and called off the strike.

Isolde grabs our hands, embraces us, feeds us. As at Emma's, we sit for hours making notes, laying plans, writing notes to each other on tablets so that the inevitably present bugs won't give away our strategies. Her determination is indomitable because of the knowledge that the entire women's group stands behind her.

We were not surprised that some of the most horrible stories we heard came out of Kiev. Kiev has historically been a center of anti-Semitism. A huge statute of Chmelnitski dominates the main park. According to our Russian guide, Chmelnitski was the "unitor of Russia". In Jewish history, he belongs on the same list as Haman, Hitler, and Stalin. He was the instigator of numerous pogroms, or massacres, of Jews. Only weeks before our visit, four American tourists were beaten up on their way to visit a Refusenik.

In Kiev, Chana Albert described to us the consequences of her application to emigrate to Israel. She was a practicing cardiologist at the time of her first application. Her parents were both eminent psychiatrists, her mother Chief Psychiatrist of the Moscow V.A. Hospital. After becoming active in the Jewish freedom movement, Chana was picked up on charges of prostitution. The publicity generated by the trial caused both her parents to lose their positions. It was thought that any psychiatrist who raised such a socially ill-adjusted daughter could not possibly be competent.

Still, she shows no sign of depression. Her face is lively, freckles spilling onto her lips, which invariably hold a lit cigarette. Two of the most prized items we carted into the USSR were for her: a basic text in in-

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ternal medicine and a stethoscope. When we took the book out of our bags, she grabbed it with incredible hunger, went to a corner, and immediately began to devour the book. She will not give up her struggle to remain current with the developments in her field.

While we were at Chana's, Helen Olienik and her brother Sergei dropped over. Helen, barely 28 years old, is small and dark, and propelled by an overwhelming inner drive to leave the Soviet Union. She has been jailed four times in the past year alone on charges of "hooliganism".

She told us that the list of her 'crimes" included meeting with English and American Jewish tourists, such as ourselves, travelling to Moscow to meet with American Congressmen, and writing letters and circulating petitions demanding her family's right to emigrate. After the authorities realized that imprisonment would not silence her, they jailed her husband on charges of "hooliganism". He has been very ill in jail. Helen was at Chana's to get some signatures on yet another petition she had drafted, this one calling for the immediate release of her husband.

Helen, Chana, Isolde, Emma and Ida are only a few of the women struggling in Russia, fighting irrepressibly to get their families to freedom. Many Jewish international women's organizations such as Hadassah and ORT are providing invaluable support by adopting families, writing to them regularly, and petitioning public officials on their behalf. These women need our support. They look to us for strength. By standing with them against Russian oppression of their religions freedom, we too become heroic.

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For further information, contact Amy Schuman, Council Against Soviet Anti-Semitism, 321-7488.

WSW

Announcements

Although both lesbian and heterosexual women identify with the values and goals of feminism, they often do not come together and share their impressions, feelings, and ideas. The November 1980 issue of WSW will be devoted to the dynamics of lesbian-heterosexual relationships as a way of promoting a more accurate sense of what helps and hinders women from relating and working together, comfortábly.

WSW knows there are many women artists in Northeastern Ohio who are showing their work or struggling to gain public recognition. If you are an artist or a blossoming art commentator who is interested in submitting regular coverage of women's artwork that would be of interest to our readers, we'd like to hear from you.

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