Rally on behalf of refuseniks.
Speaker—Silva Zalmanson.
Paris, May 7, 1978.
(From the Baruch Eyal fund)
Demonstration of the Committee for support of Jews from USSR.
Paris, December 18, 1978.
(From the Baruch Eyal fund)
Rally on behalf of Yosef Begun. With poster—Boris Begun (son of Yosef), 1982, Moscow.
(From the Pavel Abramovich fund)
Demonstration on behalf of Soviet Jewry, Jerusalem, 1986
From left to right: 1. Yuri Stern. 2. Ester Karmi. 3. Sir Martin Gilbert 4. Enid Wurtman
(From the Donna Wosk fund)
Demonstration of seven refuseniks at the Leningrad regional CPSU Committee building (former Smolny Institution). March 24, 1987, Leningrad.
From left to right: 1. Michael Beizer (with a poster)2. Aba Taratuta 3. Ida Taratuta 4. Boris Lokshin
5. Lilia Shapiro 6. Inna Rozhanskaya-Lobovikova 7. Elena Keis
(From the Aba Taratuta fund)
Demonstration of refuseniks at the Leningrad regional CPSU Committee building (former Smolny Institution).
April 23, 1987, Leningrad.
From left to right: 1. Elena Keis 2. Lilia Shapiro 3. Vladimir Knokh 4. Rimma Sosna 5. Boris Lokshin 6. Mark Budniatsky 7. ?
8. Elena Dolganova 9. Victor Dolganov 10. Evgeny Lein 11. ?
(From the Vladimir Lifshitz fund)
Demonstration of refuseniks on the Isaac (Senate) Square devoted to the “azkara” (30 days after death) for longstanding refusenik Yuri Shpeizman who died in Wien on his way to Israel. June 10, 1987, Leningrad.
From left to right:
1. Ludmila Markov 2. Ilya Simovsky 3. Irina Alievskaya 4. Mark Reznik 5. Elena Reznik 6. Boris Lokshin (second row) 7. Rita Gimmelfarb 8. (?) 9. Lev Furman 10. Alexandr Yampolsky (second row) 11. Leonid Kelbert 12. Vladimir Lifshitz 13. Michael Makushkin.
All in all 27–28 persons participated in the demonstration.
(From the Vladimir Lifshitz fund)
SSSJ founder Jacob Birnbaum, Rabbi Norman Lamm, David Geller at Simchat Torah celebration for Soviet Jewry, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York City. October, 1969.
(From the Jacob Birnbaum fund)
SSSJ Soviet Jewry “sukkah” at United Nations, New York City. October, 1971.
(From the Jacob Birnbaum fund)
Shlomo Carlebach at “We Are One” concert-rally, Forest Hills Tennis Stadium,
New York City. June, 1974.
(From the Jacob Birnbaum fund)
Soviet Jewry demonstration at the Kotel, Jerusalem. January, 1987.
Poster with the photo of Yosef Begun on the foreground.
(From the Jacob Birnbaum fund)
Hunger strike of 3 days in solidarity with the Soviet Prisoners of Zion.
May 1971, Duesseldorf, West Germany. The building in the background is the synagogue of Duesseldorf were the hunger strike took place.
From left to right, first row: Elisabeth Berkes, Joel Berger, Daniel “Tutti” Izchak Katz,
Jossi Reich; second row: Ari Rosenblatt, Dalia Reich, Esther Auerbach, Jossi Borenstein, Dubbi Schkolnik, Heinz Szeinwald; there was one more participant in this hunger strike, Peter Rimoczi, who isn’t seen behind the extreme right poster.
Photo was published in the book DAS JAHR IM BILD [Images of the year]—1971, CARLSEN VERLAG, Germany, page 57, and presented to the Remember and Save Association by Daniel “Tutti” Itzhak Katz.
Demonstration of women-refuseniks at the Trubnaya square. Guzel Hait, Galina Nizhnikov, Galina Kremen, Natasga Katz, Ida Nudel are among participants. Moscow, 1977 or 1978.
Members of the SSSJ (Students Struggle for Soviet Jewry) in the McGill University, Canada, organized demonstration in November, 1980 in front of the Aeroflot Agency in Montreal on behalf of refusenik Victor Brailovsky who was sentenced by a Moscow court to three years of exile for editing and publishing of a “Samizdat” magazine Jews in USSR. One of the participants, Ellen Sossin holds a painted giant Aeroflot ticket for Victor Brailovsky. November weather with cold rain and sleet didn’t stop demonstrators.
Courtesy of Seth Vogelman, one of the organizers and participants of the demonstration.