Ida Nudel

==Efforts to support Refuseniks==

==Efforts to support Refuseniks==

In the summer of 1972, she organized a hunger strike at the central office of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] to protest the arrest of refusenik Vladimir Markman. After four days, the police ended the strike by blocking their entry.Segal (1996), p. 69 She started a campaign for keeping contact with prisoners of Zion who called her "Mama" and "The angel of mercy".Slater & Slater (2006), pp. 192–193 She spread word about items the prisoners needed and were permitted to possess, and requested them from visitors from all over the world. These included vitamins, warm underwear and chocolate, as well as pens, cigarettes, and three-dimensional postcards, that could be exchanged with the guards for small favors.Segal (1996), p. 72

In the summer of 1972, she organized a [[hunger strike]] at the central office of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] to protest the arrest of refusenik Vladimir Markman. After four days, the police ended the strike by blocking their entry.Segal (1996), p. 69 She started a campaign for keeping contact with prisoners of Zion who called her "Mama" and "The angel of mercy".Slater & Slater (2006), pp. 192–193 She spread word about items the prisoners needed and were permitted to possess, and requested them from visitors from all over the world. These included vitamins, warm underwear and chocolate, as well as pens, cigarettes, and three-dimensional postcards, that could be exchanged with the guards for small favors.Segal (1996), p. 72

She soon lost her job. In June 1978, she placed a banner in her apartment in [[Moscow]] reading "[[KGB]], give me my visa to Israel". She was sentenced to four years of internal exile. She was sent to [[Krivosheino, Tomsk Oblast|Krivosheino]], on the [[River Ob]], [[Siberia]]. For several months, she was the only woman in a factory dormitory, before finding herself a log hut and a job as a night guard at a truck yard. The KGB warned the residents of the village to stay away from her. She kept receiving letters of support and corresponding with prisoners of Zion.

She soon lost her job. In June 1978, she placed a banner in her apartment in [[Moscow]] reading "[[KGB]], give me my visa to Israel". She was sentenced to four years of internal exile. She was sent to [[Krivosheino, Tomsk Oblast|Krivosheino]], on the [[River Ob]], [[Siberia]]. For several months, she was the only woman in a factory dormitory, before finding herself a log hut and a job as a night guard at a truck yard. The KGB warned the residents of the village to stay away from her. She kept receiving letters of support and corresponding with prisoners of Zion.