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Ever hopeful
Ida Nudel will receive plaque in absentia
by Gail Evans
Ida Nudel is more than a name
to the many women who attended
the Atlanta Jewish Federation's
Mini-College program this
September. We met her sister and
through her, Ida Nudel became
alive to us. Elena Friedman, the
sister of Ida Nudel, today spends
her every day totally devoted to
arousing world support in order to
get her sister to Israel. The Soviet
Jewry Committee of the Atlanta
Jewish Federation will take a step
towards that end when they honor
her in absentia at the Oct. 14
Simchat Torah March.
Ida, her sister Elena and Elena's
husband, Arieh, all applied for
visas to leave the Soviet Union.
Elena and Arieh’s visas came
through in 1972, a year after they
applied. Ida's did not. She
encouraged her sister and brother-
in-law to leave, realizing that if
they didn't, they would lose their
chance. Elena says “from that
moment on I have not had a day of
peace.”
Elena told us that much of what
she knows about her sister she has
learned from strangers who have
called to talk of her sister’s strength
and fortitude.
Those who called refer to Ida as
their “angel of mercy,” the mother
of the Prisoners, and some have
begun referring to Ida as the “last
of the Just.”
Ida Nudel was born in the ,
Crimea in 1931. Neither her
parents nor her grandparents were
religious. Her father was a member
of the Communist Party during
her youth in Moscow. As Elena
today says: “Her family had totally
assimilated. But in Russia you
always know you’re a Jew. They
never let you forget it.” As the
years went on, Ida began to yearn
to understand why she was
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different. She began to read and
study about Judaism and Israel.
Early in 1971 she decided to risk
her existence in the Soviet Union
and apply to leave for Israel.
Her visa was denied. The KGB
said she had access to state secrets.
She had been working as an
economist, planning costing on a
new insecticide factory.
After Elena and her husband left
for Israel, Ida increased her
involvement in the protest
movement.
On June 1, 1978, International
Children’s Day, a group of
Russian Jewish women planned a
quiet demonstration with their
children to demand visas to Israel.
The KGB found out and all of the
women were restricted to their
apartments. Not wanting the KGB
to think they had broken her spirit,
she hung a banner on her balcony
saying in Russian, “KGB give me a
visa to Israel.” Men in the next
apartment broke the banner. She
then drew a large Star of David
and placed it on her window. They
broke the window and Ida was
arrested for “vandalism and
malicious hooliganism.” Her trial
was like that of all other Soviet
refuseniks.
She was sentenced to four years
of exile in Siberia. Early in July of
1978 she was shipped to Siberia on
a cattle train Tilled with women
criminals. The trip took a month,
at which time Ida was subjected to
constant beatings.
When she finally arrived at her
destination, the village of
Krivosheyno in Siberia, she found
herself in a hostel with sixty male
criminals, ex-convicts considered
too dangerous to be allowed back
into society, whose job was to clear
the surrounding swampland.
Elena told us how desperate she
was over her sister’s situation.
There are reports Ida is very ill, but
no one knows whether she is
getting any medical attention. Her
sister worries that Ida cannot
survive another winter in Siberia.
When Elena was in Atlanta she
urged us all to join with her in a
campaign to free her sister. The
Soviet Jewry Committee of the
Atlanta Jewish Federation will
take one step in that campaign
when they present a plaque in
absentia to Ida Nudel at the
October 14 Simchat Torah
Freedom March. The plaque will
be delivered to the Soviet Embassy
in Washington and maybe Ida will
learn of it. For gestures such as this
are all the hope prisoners such as
Ida have to live on.
Were Ida to be in Atlanta on
October 14 we might be privileged
to hear the words she has written in
her many protest letters...“1 am
fortunate because I add a page to
the history of Jewish resistance,
because my efforts have helped
thousands of Jews to leave this
barbarous country, because 1 have
helped Prisoners of Zion to keep
spirit and survive in the hell which
you cannot imagine...But if our
suffering will not force every one of
you to rush to help us, then it is in
vain. We believe our suffering is
not for nothing, and this belief
saves us from despair. 1 believe
that someday I will walk up the
steps of an El Al aircraft and my
suffering and my tears will remain
in my memory only, and my head
will be full of triumph. God grant
me that it will happen Soon.”
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