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Natan Sharansky is married to Avital Sharansky and has two daughters, Rachel and Hannah. [8] [9] In the Soviet Union, his application to marry Avital was denied by the authorities. They were married in a friend's apartment, in a ceremony not recognized by the government, as the USSR only recognized civil marriage and not religious marriage. [10]
Avital Sharansky in 1980. Avital Sharansky (born Natalia Stieglitz (Ukrainian: Наталія Стігліц, Russian: Наталья Штиглиц) in Ukraine, 1950; [1] married name also Shcharansky) [2] is a former activist and public figure in the Soviet Jewry Movement who fought for the release of her husband, Natan Sharansky, from Soviet imprisonment.
Ida Petrovna Milgrom (1908 – 2002) helped to lead an international campaign to free her son, Soviet dissident and former Deputy Prime Minister of Israel Natan Sharansky. [1] After her daughter-in-law was permitted to leave the Soviet Union, she continued her "nine-year battle," [2] working from within the USSR, along with her older son Leonid ...
JerusalemNatan Sharansky looks the same as he always has -- and he is a welcome sight. So is Avital, his wife. She came out of the Soviet Union before he did -- a good twelve years before. She ...
Former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, winner of the 2020 Genesis Prize, announced Monday that he will donate the $1 million award to organizations fighting the coronavirus pandemic and ...
Cotler began fighting for freedom and justice in law school with the landmark case of refusenik Natan Sharansky, for whom he devised his “mobilization of shame” strategy against the human rights violator — essentially, a PR blitz against a superpower. Like others who crossed Vladimir Putin’s path, Cotler was poisoned in Moscow. But the ...
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At the Kaluga trial in 1970, Bonner and Sakharov met Natan Sharansky and began working together to defend Jews sentenced to death for attempting an escape from the USSR in a hijacked plane. [2] Under pressure from Sakharov, the Soviet regime permitted Yelena Bonner to travel to the West in 1975, 1977 and 1979 for treatment of her wartime eye ...