Ida Milgrom

Ida Petrovna Milgrom (1908 – 2002) helped to lead an international campaign to free her son, Soviet dissident and former Deputy Prime Minister of Israel Natan Sharansky.[1]

After her daughter-in-law was permitted to leave the Soviet Union, she continued her "nine-year battle,"[2] working from within the USSR, along with her older son Leonid.[1]

Natan was released in 1986; Milgrom was allowed to leave later that same year.[1]

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.[2]

  1. ^ a b c Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (May 3, 2002). "Ida Milgrom, 94, Dies; Helped Free a Son Held by Soviets". The New York Times.
  2. ^ a b Dennis McLellan (May 4, 2002). "Ida Milgrom, 94; Sought Dissident Son's Freedom". The Los Angeles Times.