The Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry received word Thursday that Shmuel and Raya Bronfman from Odessa were granted visas to Israel. Dying of leukemia. Raya was recently taken to the regional hospital in grave condition. She was denied an exit visa when an ovir official told Shmuel that the USSR “has the capability of taking care of life and death.”
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