Abstract:

This published catalogue is the finding aid for the archive of the Israeli Association of Former Prisoners of Zion in the USSR, spanning its activities from 1971-2004. This collection is housed at the Central Zionist Archive (CZA). The Nevzlin Center proudly funded the receipt and organization of this large collection (constituting 25 linear meters) at the CZA in 2004, as well as the publication of this catalogue in 2005, with the opening of the collection to researchers.

The collection includes more than 700 personal files of former Prisoners of Zion in the Soviet Union, institutional and personal correspondence, organizational memoranda, minutes of meetings, posters, newsletters, various publications connected to the subject, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia from the Soviet Jewry movement in Israel. The collection reflects the full activities of the Association in its efforts to free Soviet "refuseniks" and to facilitate their absorption in Israel. A small part of the collection also deals with Prisoners of Zion from Ethiopia and Arab countries.