Sylva zalmanson biography of william

Sylva Zalmanson, a young newlywed, pantomimed a waltz in the solitary confinement of a Soviet dungeon.

Seymon Gluzman, a Ukrainian psychiatrist who was held prisoner by the Soviet Union; Sylva Zalmanson, who was part of the Dymshits-Kuznetsov hijacking incident.

Her husband, Eduard Kuznetsov, sentenced to death, was somewhere, like her, as good as lost in the “gulag archipelago” of prisons. As she waltzed, she slowly moved her arms around no one, swaying, gliding through the tiny cell. While she danced, said Sylva later, “I remembered the life I once had when I was free.” Freezing in a Siberian winter, in thin clothes she jumped up and down, up and down, as if that mattered.

Bugs crawled in the dark.

Famous refuseniks

Famous refuseniks

The Kennan Institute convened a virtual meeting in June marking the 50th anniversary of the attempted hijacking of a Soviet commercial flight from.

Refusenik israel

Refusenik was an unofficial term for individuals—typically, but not exclusively, Soviet Jews—who were denied permission to emigrate, primarily to Israel.

This article represents an effort to see what light can be shed on the.

In her soup was a dead mouse.

Sylva and Eduard’s crime was wanting to leave the Soviet Union and emigrate to Israel and, with 10 others, planning to hijack a small 12-seater aircraft, on June 15, 1970, for the 15-minute flight from Leningrad to the Finnish border.

The KGB arrested them all before the plane took off. Eduard and Mark Dymshitz, the would-be pilot, were sentenced to death.

When the Soviet judge allowed her to s