Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry – ‘The 35's’"} 66:{"position":8,"content":"

On hearing the news that thirty five year old Raissa Palatnik, of Odessa, had been taken by the KGB, few women decided to hold a night vigil protest outside the Soviet Consulate. From this act, thousands of women in the United Kingdom and other places around the world became involved in a movement which helped to bring down the Iron Curtain. The Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry, commonly known as ‘The 35’s’, came into being in May 1971."} 68:T507,

In England women took to the streets to bring to focus and demand for the release of Jews who were entrapped in the Soviet Union and wanted OUT! These were women who encouraged their husbands and families to join them in demonstrations for the cause. They were a bunch of determined housewives who relentlessly campaigned to heighten public awareness of the inhuman denial of freedom of religion and movement, the millions of Jews living in the USSR were subjected to. Those women relentlessly harangued the Soviet ambassadors in London, demonstrated and demanded of their own politicians and others to take up the cause. While doing their work at home ‘The 35’s’ also “adopted” Soviet Jewish “refuseniks,” refusenik being a person in the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate, in particular, a Jew forbidden to emigrate to Isra

There was Hope, Fate, Future – 35’s-Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry Reunion