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Ida Petrovna Milgrom (1908 – 2002) helped to lead an international campaign to free her son, Soviet dissident and former
Born in 1908 in
Deputy Prime Minister of Israel
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Natan Sharansky
Natan Sharansky ( he, נתן שרנסקי; russian: Ната́н Щара́нский; uk, Натан Щаранський, born Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky on 20 January 1948); uk, Анатолій Борисович Щаранський, ...
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After her daughter-in-law was permitted to leave the Soviet Union, she continued her "nine-year battle," working from within the USSR, along with her older son Leonid.
Natan was released in 1986; Milgrom was allowed to leave later that same year.
Even after Sharansky was in Israel, "she logged thousands of miles traveling to meet with government officials" so that the remaining "thousands of Soviet dissidents and refuseniks" could also leave the Soviet Union.
Biography
Born in 1908 in Balta, Ukraine
Balta ( uk, Ба́лта, ; ro, Balta; yi, באַלטאַ) is a city in Podilsk Raion, Odesa Oblast in south-western Ukraine. Population: The city's population was 19,772 as of the 2001 Ukrainian Census.
History
Balta is located near the Dnie ...
, Ida Petrovna Milgrom was a promising pianist who "attended the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory for a time." "Struck by the extraordinary music coming" from a fellow student playing, "she decided that the piano was not for her" and, at Odessa Polytechnic Institute Milgrom "trained as an engineer-economist." She served as "an economics adviser to ministers in the Ukrainian government."
Leonid described his mother as "a wise woman who taught her children to treat people with kindness."
Her husband Boris Shcharansky died in 1980. "Besides her sons, Ms. Milgrom is survived by four grandchildren."
See also
*Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry
The Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry (GNYCSJ) was founded in 1971, as a non-governmental grassroots organization that worked to secure human rights for Jews in the Soviet Union. It served as an umbrella agency for a number of regional o ...
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Soviet emigrants to Israel Israeli people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent 1908 births 2002 deaths {{Israel-bio-stub