The Board of Directors of the Jewish Federation Council’s Western Area Council (WAC) has adopted two Soviet Jews, Prisoner of Conscience Anatoly Altman and refusnik Uli Kosharovsky, it was announced by Dorothy Goren, WAC president. Altman was sentenced to 10 years in a strict regime labor camp in 1970 following the first Leningrad trial. Kosharovsky first applied for an exit visa in 1971.
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