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CONTACT/USSR program
- Accession Number
- 1988-11-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1988-11-3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1977-1978
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a correspondence file of Professor Ben Bernholtz of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, documenting the activities of CONTACT/USSR.
- Administrative History
- CONTACT/USSR was an organization affiliated with the Canadian Jewish Congress founded at the University of Toronto, and supported by many academics. The aim of the organization was to establish and maintain written contact with "Refuseniks" and "Prisoners of Conscience" in the USSR and to lobby the Canadian government to persuade the Soviet autorities to permit unhampered emigration of Soviet Jews.
- Source
- Archival Accessions