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A $6 million project to document the movement that resulted in the emigration of 2 million Soviet Jews will be based at the University of Colorado.
The project, directed by Susan Whelan, will be run with private funds. Its goal is to chronicle the repression of Jewish religious and cultural rights under the Soviet regime from the 1950s to the 1980s.
The archives will include letters from Siberia, photos of starving refuseniks and videotaped interviews with survivors. They will be collected and stored in Norlin Library on the school’s Boulder campus.
