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Guide to the Babette Wampold Papers,
undated, 1969-2003
(bulk 1976-1991)

P-912

Finding Aid by Michael D. Montalbano

Funding made possible by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

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Electronic finding aid was encoded in EAD 2002 by Michael D. Montalbano in June 27, 2011. Description is in English.

Descriptive Summary

Creator: Wampold, Babette
Title: Babette Wampold Papers
Dates: undated, 1969-2003
Bulk Dates: 1976-1991
Abstract: This collection contains the papers of Babette Wampold and the Alabama Council to Save Soviet Jews and documents their activities on behalf of the American Soviet Jewry Movement. The collection is comprised of correspondence, case files, clippings, newsletters, photographs, and trip reports.
Languages: The collection is mostly in English, but also contains material in French, Hebrew and Russian.
Quantity: 9.35 linear feet (14 manuscript boxes, 1 OS4 box and 1 SB2 box).
Identification: P-912
Repository: American Jewish Historical Society
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Biographical Note

The Papers of Babette Wampold represent one collection housed within the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement (AASJM). These papers reflect the effort, beginning in the 1960s through the late 1980s, of thousands of American Jews of all denominations and political orientations to stop the persecution and discrimination of Jews in the Soviet Union. The American Soviet Jewry Movement (ASJM) is considered to be the most influential Movements of the American Jewish community in the 20th century. The beginnings of the organized American Soviet Jewry Movement became a model for efforts to aid Soviet Jews in other countries, among them Great Britain, Canada, and France. The movement can be traced to the early 1960s, when the first organizations were created to address the specific problem of the persecution and isolation of Soviet Jews by the government of the Soviet Union.

Babette Wampold, activist, art collector, and author, lived in Montgomery, Alabama with her husband Charles, a lawyer, and their three children. She wrote about Jewish immigration in the American South and was active in the leadership of the Alabama Council to Save Soviet Jews (ACTSSJ). The Wampold’s art collection was an exhibit at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in 2006 entitled Adventures in Collecting Art: American Paintings from the Collections of Charles and Babette Wampold and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.

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Scope and Content Note

As part of the American Soviet Jewry Movement holdings at the American Jewish Historical Society this collection documents the activities of the Alabama Council to Save Soviet Jewry and its leader Babette Wampold. The collection includes material related to the ACTSSJ and other organizations involved in the effort to free the Refuseniks and consists of articles, essays, correspondence, pamphlets, newsletter, photographs, audio-visual material, and more.

Series I: American Soviet Jewry Movement Organizations, consists of material that documents the activities of a few organizations that comprised the American Soviet Jewry Movement and is broken into two subseries. Sub-Series 1: Alabama Council to Save Soviet Jews, documents the activities of Babette Wampold and the Alabama Council to Save Soviet Jews (ACTSSJ). Such activities include programs to support Soviet Jews through pledges, Adopt a Family, to vigils for human rights. It also includes correspondence with Refuseniks and their family members outside of the Soviet Union, government officials, and scientists. Babette’s essays and editorials on the plight of Refuseniks can be found in this series. Additional material includes a scrapbook further documenting the establishment and activities of the Alabama Council to Save Soviet Jews. Sub-Series 2: Other Organizations, contains material that documents the activities of other American Soviet Jewry Movement organizations that Babette received and includes correspondence between the ACTSSJ and the other councils, their articles, newsletters, mailings, manuals, and booklets.

In Series II: Refusenik Case Histories, the plight of the Refuseniks is documented and includes brief biographical information and various letters and photographs meant for distribution in mailings to raise awareness and provide updates on their status.

Series III: Trip Reports, documents the travel and observations of American activists in the USSR as they attempted to contact Refuseniks and plea for their release.

Series IV, contains the subject files of Babette Wampold and ACTSSJ about various topics and matters pertaining to the overall American Soviet Jewry Movement. These include lists of Refuseniks and American and Soviet officials, newspaper clippings, maps, pamphlets, and Soviet propaganda.

Photographs are kept in Series V. These images, for the most part unidentified, provide snapshots of Refuseniks and activists. The contents of the images include the events of the ACTSSJ, Babette Wampold with various activits and dignitaries including U.S. President Jimmy Carter, in the Wampold home, and U.S. Senator Carl Levin. The series also includes a slide program assembled by the Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry titled Refuseniks: Their Faces, Their Faith. The audio component of this program is contained in the next series.

Series VI: Audio-Visual Material, contains the audio component to the slide program created by the Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry titled Refuseniks: Their Faces, Their Faith. Also included is a telephone interview with Refuseniks Valery and Janna Lerner and the Bussards. The U-Matic videocassette contains unknown material.

Series VII: Ephemera, includes four buttons used to promote awareness of the suffering of Soviet Jews and the efforts related to their release.

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Arrangement

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

The collection is open to all researchers by permission of the Director of Library and Archives of the American Jewish Historical Society, except items that are restricted due to their fragility.

Use Restrictions

The collection is open to all researchers by permission of the Executive Director of the American Jewish Historical Society, except items that are restricted due to their fragility. For more information, contact:

American Jewish Historical Society,
Center for Jewish History,
15 West 16th Street,
New York, NY, 10011
email:  reference@ajhs.org

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Related Material

The papers of Babette Wampold is one individual collection within the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement (AASJM) located at the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS). Other Soviet Jewry Movement collections at AJHS include the records of Action for Soviet Jewry (I-487), the National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ; I-181 and I-181A), the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (I-410, I-410A), Houston Action for Soviet Jewry (I-500), Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews (I-505), Seattle Action for Soviet Jewry (I-507), Medical Mobilization for Soviet Jewry, the papers of Joel Ackerman (P-787), Julia Mates Cheney (P-806), Jerry Goodman (P-863), Laurel and Alan J. Gould (P-866), Carolyn W. Sanger (P-870), Si Frumkin (P-871), Elaine Pittell (P-873), Sanford A. Gradinger (P-880), Shaul Osadchey (P-882), Leonard S. Cahan (P-883), Doris H. Goldstein (P-887), David H. Hill (P-888), Margery Sanford (P-889), Pinchas Mordechai Teitz (P-891), David Waksberg (P-895), Pamela B. Cohen (P-897), Moshe Decter (P-899), William Korey (P-903), Morey Schapira (P-906), Charlotte Gerber Turner (P-907) and Myrtle Sitowitz (P-908).

Individual accounts of activities within the Soviet Jewry Movement are preserved in the UJA Oral History Collection (I-433), which includes accounts from members of the following organizations: the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, Bay Area Council on Soviet Jews (BACSJ), Seattle Action for Soviet Jews, Houston Action for Soviet Jews, Chicago Action for Soviet Jews, Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jews and the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. Interviewees include accounts by Lillian Forman (BACSJ), Ann Polunsky, Morey Schapira, Myrtle Sitowitz, Deborah Turkin, David Waksberg, Sylvia Weinberg and Dolores Wilkenfeld. In addition, posters related to the Soviet Jewry Movement can be found in the Jewish Student Organizations Collection (I-61).

Additional materials from other collections include records dealing with the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) located within the North American Jewish Students Appeal (NAJSA, I-338) and the records of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council (NJCRAC, I-172). Related records are also located at the AJHS in Newton Centre, MA including memorabilia and ephemera of the New England Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (I-237) and the Records of the Student Coalition for Soviet Jewry – Brandeis University (I-493).

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Custodial History

This collection was donated to the American Jewish Historical Society by Babette Wampold in 2006.

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Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date (if known); Babette Wampold Papers; P-912; box number; folder number; American Jewish Historical Society, Boston, MA and New York, NY.

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Access Points

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Container List

 

Series I: American Soviet Jewry Movement Organizations, undated, 1975-2003.
The series is in English, French and Russian.
3.75 linear feet (5.5 manuscript boxes and 1 OS4 folders). Box 1, Folder 1 to Box 6, Folder 6 and Oversize Box 15 (OS4), Folder 1.
Arrangement:

This series has been arranged in alphabetical order.
Scope and Content:

This series documents the activities of a few organizations that comprised the American Soviet Jewry Movement.

Sub-Series 1: Alabama Council To Save Soviet Jews, undated, 1975-2003.
2.0 linear feet (2 manuscript boxes and 1 OS4 folders). Box 1, Folder 1 to Box 2, Folder 17 and Box 15 (OS4), Folder 1.
Arrangement:

This subseries has been arranged in alphabetical order by folder title, then by chronological order of the material contained within.
Scope and Content:

This subseries documents the activities of Babette Wampold and the Alabama Council to Save Soviet Jews (ACTSSJ). Such activities include programs to support Soviet Jews through pledges, Adopt a Family, to vigils for human rights. It also includes correspondence with Refuseniks and their family members outside of the Soviet Union, government officials, and scientists. Babette’s essays and editorials on the plight of Refuseniks can be found in this series. Additional material includes a scrapbook further documenting the establishment and activities of the Alabama Council to Save Soviet Jews. Material includes correspondence, articles, newsletters, photographs, a phonograph record, and proclamations.

Box Folder Title Date
1 1 Activities - Adopt a Family undated
1 2 Activities - Human Rights Night 1977
1 3 Activities - Letter Writing Sessions undated, 1975-1987
1 4 Activities - Link with Freedom Night 1977-1978
1 5 Activities - Alabama and Montgomery Declarations 1976-1987
1 6 Activities - Resolution - World Conference of Mayors 1984-1993
1 7 Activities - Speaker - Mikhail Eidelman 1981
1 8 Activities - Speaker - Michael Sherbourne 1977-1993
1 9 Administration - Membership Lists 1977-1985
1 10 Administration - Vital Documents and Reports 1976-1987
1 11 Correspondence 1976-1977
1 12 Correspondence 1978
1 13 Correspondence 1979
1 14 Correspondence 1980-1984
1 15 Correspondence 1985-1989
Box Folder Title Date
2 1 Correspondence - Arthur Abba Goldberg 1981
2 2 Correspondence - Belgian Contacts 1979-1980
2 3 Correspondence - French and Swiss Contacts 1980-1987
2 4 Correspondence - Israeli Contacts 1978-1981
2 5 Correspondence - Israeli Contacts - Elena (Nudel) Fridman (contains phonograph) 1980-1981
2 6 Correspondence - Haim Kilov 1987-1988
2 7 Correspondence - Ki Hang Kim 1979
2 8 Correspondence - Baruch Laurie 1978 July
2 9 Correspondence - Boris M Schein (1 of 2) 1979-2003
2 10 Correspondence - Boris M Schein (2 of 2) 1979-2003
2 11 Scientists undated, 1977-1981
2 12 Correspondence - US House of Representatives 1981-1983
2 13 Correspondence - US Senate 1979-1983
2 14 Editorials undated, 1976-1987
2 15 Essays undated, 1980-1987
2 16 Handouts 1979-1985
2 17 Hotline 1977-1982
Box Folder Title Date
15 (OS 4) 1 Scrapbook 1976-1978

Sub-Series 2: Other Organizations, 1976-1991.
1.75 linear feet (3.5 manuscript boxes). Box 3, Folder 1 to Box 6, Folder 6.
Arrangement:

This subseries has been arranged alphabetically by the name of the organization. This arrangement is further refined by document type and chronology as described in the folder titles.
Scope and Content:

This subseries contains material that documents the activities of other American Soviet Jewry Movement organizations that Babette received. The subseries includes correspondence between the ACTSSJ and the other councils. Material includes correspondence, articles, newsletters, mailings, manuals, and booklets.
Box Folder Title Date
3 1 Action for Soviet Jewry 1978-1985
3 2 Amnesty International 1978
3 3 Arizona Action for Soviet Jewry 1978-1986
3 4 Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry 1979-1984
3 5 Canadian Jewish Congress 1981 December
3 6 Center for Appeals for Freedom, Freedom House 1980-1982
3 7 Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry 1982-1988
3 8 Christian Committee for the Defense of Believers' Rights in the USSR 1979-1987
3 9 Christian Peace Conference 1979
3 10 Cincinnati Council for Soviet Jews 1979-1985
3 11 Connecticut Committee for Soviet Jews 1980
3 12 Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society 1978-1982
3 13 Help and Action Coordination Committee 1986-1987
3 14 Houston Action for Soviet Jewry 1986
3 15 International Parliamentary Group for Human Rights in the Soviet Union 1985 November
3 16 International Physicians' Commission for the Protection of Prisoners 1986
3 17 Israel Public Council for Soviet Jewry 1985-1989
3 18 Jewish Community Council - Birmingham, AL 1977
3 19 Jewish Federation of Montgomery 1981-1988
3 20 Jewish Women Against Refusal 1988
Box Folder Title Date
4 1 Long Island Committee for Soviet Jewry 1980-1986
4 2 Medical Mobilization for Human Rights and Religious Freedom 1978-1987
4 3 Medical Mobilization for Soviet Jewry 1984 November
4 4 National Council for Soviet Jewry 1977-1991
4 5 National Interreligious Task Force on Soviet Jewry 1981
4 6 National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council 1986-1987
4 7 Religion in Communist Dominated Areas - Correspondence 1979-1991
4 8 Religion in Communist Dominated Areas - Editorials 1983-1986
4 9 Religion in Communist Dominated Areas - Newsletter 1978-1979
4 10 Religion in Communist Dominated Areas - Newsletter 1980-1981
4 11 Religion in Communist Dominated Areas - Newsletter 1982-1983
4 12 Religion in Communist Dominated Areas - Newsletter 1984-1985
Box Folder Title Date
5 1 Religion in Communist Dominated Areas - Newsletter 1986-1987
5 2 Religion in Communist Dominated Areas - Newsletter 1989-1990
5 3 Religion in Communist Dominated Areas - Press Releases 1979-1983
5 4 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry 1978-1988
5 5 Soviet Jewry Education and Information Center 1985
5 6 Soviet Jewry Legal Advocacy Center 1979-1986
5 7 Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry 1979-1988
5 8 Student Zionist Council of the United States 1985
5 9 Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (1 of 2) 1978-1989
5 10 Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (2 of 2) 1978-1989
Box Folder Title Date
6 1 Union of Councils for Soviet Jews - Alert Newsletter 1984-1986
6 2 Union of Councils for Soviet Jews - Congressional Handbook for Soviet Jewry: Volume One (2 copies) 1988
6 3 Union of Councils for Soviet Jews - Emigration, Trade, and Détente 1978-1979
6 4 Union of Councils for Soviet Jews and Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry - Letters from Moscow 1976-1980
6 5 Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry 1984-1988
6 6 Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry 1978-1986
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Series II: Refusenik Case Histories, undated, 1976-1991.
The series is in English and Russian.
2.0 linear feet (4.0 manuscript boxes). Box 6, Folder 7 to Box 10, Folder 13.
Arrangement:

This series has been arranged in alphabetical order by the ASJM organization documenting the Refusenik case history, then subsequently by specific title if applicable.
Scope and Content:

This series contains the case histories of numerous Refuseniks. This material, distributed in mailings to raise awareness and provide updates on their status includes correspondence, photographs, and mailings.
Box Folder Title Date
6 7 Alabama Council To Save Soviet Jews - Assorted 1976-1989
6 8 Alabama Council To Save Soviet Jews - Boris and Irina Ghinis 1979-1988
6 9 Alabama Council To Save Soviet Jews - Yakov Levin 1984 November 19-20
6 10 Alabama Council To Save Soviet Jews - Felix Luboshitz 1985 June 26
6 11 Alabama Council To Save Soviet Jews - Abe Stolar 1979-1989
6 12 Alabama Council To Save Soviet Jews - Vashchenko Family (1 of 2) 1979-1987
Box Folder Title Date
7 1 Alabama Council To Save Soviet Jews - Vashchenko Family (2 of 2) 1979-1987
7 2 Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry 1980-1981
7 3 Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry 1982
7 4 Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry (1 of 2) 1983
7 5 Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry (2 of 2) 1983
7 6 Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry (1 of 2) 1984
7 7 Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry (2 of 2) 1984
7 8 Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry 1985
7 9 Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry 1986
Box Folder Title Date
8 1 Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry 1987
8 2 Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry 1988
8 3 Bay Area Council Soviet Jewry - Adopt a Family 1979-1987
8 4 Boulder Action for Soviet Jewry 1988 January
8 5 Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry 1982-1988
8 6 Cincinnati Council for Soviet Jews 1988-1989
8 7 Israel Public Council for Soviet Jewry 1982-1989
8 8 Long Island Committee for Soviet Jewry undated, 1980-1988
8 9 Long Island Committee for Soviet Jewry - Publications - Jewish Prisoners of Conscience in the U.S.S.R.: Life Behind the 'Gates of Hell' 1979 January
8 10 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry - Assorted 1987-1988
8 11 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry - Valery Lerner 1979-1991
8 12 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry - Alexander Mirenson undated
8 13 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry - Publications - Belgrade: Breach or Breakthrough? 1977 October
8 14 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry - Publications - Case Histories of Current Refuseniks Recorded in Volumes I through XI 1984 September
8 15 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry - Publications - Glasnost and Soviet Jews: Unfulfilled Promises - Volume XIV 1987 September
Box Folder Title Date
9 1 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry - Publications - Helsinki: Promise or Betrayal? 1977 March
9 2 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry - Publications - Mission in Madrid: Monitoring Moscow - Volume VII 1980 October
9 3 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry - Publications - Mission in Madrid: Monitoring Moscow - Volume VII (Copy 2) 1980 October
9 4 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry - Publications - Mr. Gorbachev: Let My People Go - Volume XIII (Copy 1) 1986 September
9 5 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry - Publications - Mr. Gorbachev: Let My People Go - Volume XIII (Copy 2) 1986 September
9 6 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry - Publications - Paris Plea for Freedom: Save Soviet Jews - Volume IX 1982 September
9 7 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry - Publications - Reopen the Gates: Save Soviet Jews - Volume X 1983 October
9 8 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry - Publications - Seeking a New Dialogue to Save Soviet Jews - Volume VIII (Copy 1) 1981 September
Box Folder Title Date
10 1 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry - Publications - Seeking a New Dialogue to Save Soviet Jews - Volume VIII (Copy 2) 1981 September
10 2 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry - Publications - Separated Soviet Families: A Collection of Case Histories 1976 August
10 3 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry - Publications - Soviet Anti-Semitism a New Wave - Volume V 1978 August
10 4 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry - Publications - Soviet Jews: Hostages All - Volume XII 1985 September
10 5 South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry - Publications - Soviet Jews: Hostages for Trade - Volume VI 1979 August
10 6 Soviet Jewry Education and Information Center 1986-1988
10 7 Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry 1987 July 22
10 8 Union of Councils for Soviet Jews and Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry - Publications 1976-1981
10 9 Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry 1985-1986
10 10 Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry 1988-1989
10 11 Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry - Vladislav Mescheriakov 1984 July
10 12 Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry - Leonid Ruskin 1984 January
10 13 Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry - Valery Taubin 1984 November
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Series III: Trip Reports, undated, 1978-1988.
The series is in English.
0.25 linear feet (0.5 manuscript boxes). Box 10, Folder 14 to Box 11, Folder 13.
Arrangement:

This series has been arranged in chronological order.
Scope and Content:

This series contains the reports of activists visiting Refuseniks in the Soviet Union.
Box Folder Title Date
10 14 Trip Reports - Levine - Moscow and Leningrad undated
10 15 Trip Reports - Karen and Sam - Moscow 1978 December 19-23
10 16 Trip Reports - Korinow - Moscow and Leningrad 1980 December 6-13
10 17 Trip Reports - Browns - Moscow, Kiev, and Rumbala 1980-1981 December 25 - January 8
10 18 Trip Reports - Goldsmith and Joseph - Moscow, Leningrad, and Riga 1981 January 15-29
10 19 Trip Reports - Hershon and Tritt - Moscow, Odessa, and Kishinev 1981 March
10 20 Trip Reports - Symes 1981-1982 December 24 - January 1
Box Folder Title Date
11 1 Trip Reports - Will and Torop - Moscow and Leningrad 1985 April 20-29
11 2 Trip Reports - Gerut, Goldberg, Netsky and Warschauer - Moscow, Tblisi and Yerevan 1985 May 21-31
11 3 Trip Reports - Bielenberg 1985 May 27
11 4 Trip Reports - Goldman - Moscow and Leningrad 1985 June
11 5 Trip Reports - Efros and Fuller - Moscow and Leningrad 1985 June 3-11
11 6 Trip Reports - Anschel and Ross - Leningrad and Moscow 1985 October
11 7 Trip Reports - Anonymous 1986 June 2-14
11 8 Trip Reports - Nesson and Eisenberg - Moscow and Leningrad 1986 October 21-30
11 9 Trip Reports - Arzt and Lewis - Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad 1987 April 6-18
11 10 Trip Reports - Segil and Burstein - Moscow and Leningrad 1988 March 26 - April 1
11 11 Trip Reports - Abramson, Cohen, Gittleman, Muchin and Singer - Moscow and Leningrad 1988 May 2-11
11 12 Trip Reports - Braun-Cohen and Naftalin - Leningrad and Moscow 1988 May 29 - June 7
11 13 Trip Reports - Opper and Tallman - Moscow and Leningrad 1988 November 4-12
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Series IV: Subject Files, undated, 1969-1991.
The series is in English and Russian.
2.5 linear feet (2.5 manuscript boxes and 2 OS4 folders). Box 11, Folder 14 to Box 14, Folder 8 and Box 15 (OS4), Folders 2 and 3.
Arrangement:

This series is organized in alphabetical order by subject and folder title.
Scope and Content:

This series documents the subject files of Babette Wampold and ACTSSJ. These include lists, newspaper clippings, maps, pamphlets, and Soviet publications. Included in this series is a draft by Timothy Chmykhalov that would be eventually published as The Last Christian: The Release of the Siberian Seven (1986)

Box Folder Title Date
11 14 American Bar Association / Association of Soviet Lawyers 1986-1987
11 15 Bar and Bat Mitzvah Twinning undated
11 16 Bar and Bat Mitzvah Twinning 1983-1984
11 17 Bar and Bat Mitzvah Twinning 1985
11 18 Bar and Bat Mitzvah Twinning 1988
11 19 Bar and Bat Mitzvah Twinning 1989
11 20 Booklets - Testimony on the Living Condition and State of Health of Prisoners of Zion in the Soviet Prison 1979 September
Box Folder Title Date
12 1 Clippings 1976-1977
12 2 Clippings 1978
12 3 Clippings (1 of 2) 1979
12 4 Clippings (2 of 2) 1979
12 5 Clippings 1980
12 6 Clippings 1981-1982
12 7 Clippings 1983-1986
12 8 Clippings 1987-1991
12 9 Clippings - Harvest for Freedom 1981-1982
12 10 Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe - Madrid 1980-1981
Box Folder Title Date
13 1 Draft - Miracle of Release by Timothy Chmykhalov (1 of 2) 1983
13 2 Draft - Miracle of Release by Timothy Chmykhalov (2 of 2) 1983
13 3 Draft - Role of National Jewish Leadership in Jackson-Mills-Vanik by Morey Schapiro 1977
13 4 Handbooks undated, 1986
13 5 Lists - Organizations Involved in Soviet-American Relations 1986
13 6 Lists - Prisoners of Conscience and Refuseniks 1978
Box Folder Title Date
15 (OS 4) 2 Lists - Prisoners of Conscience and Refuseniks 1980-1982
Box Folder Title Date
13 7 Lists - Prisoners of Conscience and Refuseniks (1 of 2) 1985-1988
13 8 Lists - Prisoners of Conscience and Refuseniks (2 of 2) 1985-1988
13 9 Lists - Soviet Officials undated, 1983-1987
13 10 Lists - United States Government Officials undated
Box Folder Title Date
14 1 Maps undated
14 2 Moscow Olympics 1978-1980
14 3 Museum of Soviet Unofficial Art - Exhibit Catalog 1980
Box Folder Title Date
15 (OS 4) 3 Newspapers - Smoloskyp 1980-1987
Box Folder Title Date
14 4 Pamphlets - Bible: The Primary Source of Studying the History of Jews in the Ancient Period undated
14 5 Pamphlets - Letter to Friends undated
14 6 Pamphlets - Shmuel Katz: Refugees from Book Land of Contention undated
14 7 Soviet Christians 1969-1980
14 8 Soviet Press and Publications undated, 1970-1984
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Series V: Photographs, undated, 1976-1993.
The series is in English.
0.25 linear feet (0.5 manuscript boxes). Box 14, Folder 9 to Box 14, Folder 15.
Arrangement:

This series has been arranged by folder title and document type.
Scope and Content:

This series contains various photographic material. The contents of the images include the events of the ACTSSJ, Babette Wampold with various activits and dignitaries including U.S. President Jimmy Carter, in the Wampold home, and U.S. Senator Carl Levin. The series also includes a slide program assembled by the Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry titled Refuseniks: Their Faces, Their Faith the audio component of this program is contained in the next series.
Box Folder Title Date
14 9 Photographs (1 of 3) undated, 1976-1988
14 10 Photographs (2 of 3) undated, 1976-1988
14 11 Photographs (3 of 3) undated, 1976-1988
14 12 Photographs - 35 Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry undated
14 14 Photographs - Abe Stolar in Israel 1993
14 13 Photographs - Sharansky Protest undated
14 15 Slides - Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry - Refuseniks: Their Faces, Their Faith undated
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Series VI: Audio-Visual Material, undated, 1979.
The series is in English.
0.5 linear feet (2 folders and 1 SB2 box). Box 14, Folder 16 to Box 14, Folder 17 and Box 16 (SB2), Folder 1.
Arrangement:

This series is arranged alphabetically by media-type and then by title.
Scope and Content:

This series contains the audio component to the slide program created by the Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry titled Refuseniks: Their Faces, Their Faith. Also included is a telephone interview with refuseniks Valery and Janna Lerner and Bussards. The U-Matic videocassette contains unknown material.
Box Folder Title Date
14 16 Audiocassette - Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry - Refuseniks: Their Faces, Their Faith - Time 25:04 undated
14 17 Audiocassette - Telephone Conversation - Valery and Janna Lerner and Bussards 1979 June 18
Box Folder Title Date
16 (SB2) 1 Videocassette - U-Matic - Untitled undated
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Series VII: Ephemera, undated, 1980.
This series is in English.
0.01 linear feet (1 envelope). Box 16 (SB2), Folder 2.
Arrangement:

This series is not arranged.
Scope and Content:

This series contains 4 buttons used to promote awareness of the suffering of Soviet Jews and the efforts related to their release.
Box Folder Title Date
16 (SB2) 2 Buttons undated, 1980
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Appendix: Deaccessioned U.S. Government Material., 1962-1988.
Scope and Content:

The following materials were deaccessioned and discarded. They are all avilable on-line at GPO Access.

  • Bendahmane, Diane and John W. McDonald. International negotiation, art and science: Report of a Conference on International Negotiation, June 9-10, 1983. Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, 1984.
  • Ledeen, Michael Arthur. From Helsinki to Belgrade: Issues and Perspectives: Williamsburg Conference IV. Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University. 1977.
  • McDonald, John W. How to be a delegate. Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, 1984.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Our American Government: What Is It? How Does It Function? 150 Questions and Answers. 1977.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Soviet Advocacy and the U.S. Media: A Report. 1986.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. The Helsinki Forum and East-West Scientific Exchange: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology of the Committee on Science and Technology and the Subcommittee on International Security and Scientific Affairs. 96th Cong., 2nd sess., January 31, 1980.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Forced Labor in the Soviet Union: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations. 98th Cong., 1st sess., November 9, 1983.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Soviet Violation of Helsinki Final Act: Invasion of Afghanistan. 97th Cong., 1st sess., July 22, 1981.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Soviet Jewry: Hearing and Markup. 98th Cong., 1st sess., on H. Con. Res. 63, June 23 and 28, 1983
  • U.S. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Emigration of Soviet Jews: Report of a Special Study Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary on its Trip to the Soviet Union, May 24-June 1, 1975. 95th Cong. 1976 May.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. The Belgrade Followup Meeting to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe: A Report and Appraisal. 1978 May 17.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Operations. Soviet Disruption of Mail. 100th Cong., 2nd sess., March 29, 1988.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. A Thematic Survey of the Documents of the Moscow Helsinki Group. May 12, 1981.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Activities Report. 95th Cong. October 11, 1978.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Activities Report. 97th Cong. 1982.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Basket Three: Implementation of the Helsinki Accords: Volume I: Human Rights: Human Contacts: Family Reunification and Binational Marriages. 95th Cong., 1st sess., February 23-24, 1977.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Basket Three: Implementation of the Helsinki Accords: Volume II: Religious Liberty and Minority Rights in the Soviet Union: Helsinki Compliance in Europe. 95th Cong., 1st sess., April 27-28, 1977.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Basket Three: Implementation of the Helsinki Accords: Volume III: Information Flow, and Cultural and Educational Exchanges. 95th Cong., 1st sess., May 19, 24-25, 1977.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Basket Three: Implementation of the Helsinki Accords: Volume IV: Soviet Helsinki Watch, Reports on Repression: US Policy and the Belgrade Conference. 95th Cong., 1st sess., June 3 and 6, 1977.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Basket Three: Implementation of the Helsinki Accords: Volume V: The Right to Citizenship in the Soviet Union. 95th Cong., 2nd sess., May 4, 1978.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Basket Three: Implementation of the Helsinki Accords: Volume VI: Repurcussions of the Trials of the Helsinki Monitors in the USSR. 95th Cong., 2nd sess., June 6, 1978.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Basket Three: Implementation of the Helsinki Accords: Volume VII: Repurcussions of the Trials of the Helsinki Monitors in the USSR. 95th Cong., 2nd sess., July 11, 1978.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Basket Three: Implementation of the Helsinki Accords: Volume IX: US Visa Policies. 96th Cong., 1st sess., April 5, 1979.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Basket Three: Implementation of the Helsinki Accords: Volume XI: Pastor Georgi Vins on the Persecution of Reformed Baptists in the USSR: On Human Rights Violations in Ukraine. 96th Cong., 1st sess., June 7 - July 19, 1979.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Basket Three: Implementation of the Helsinki Accords: Volume XII: Review of East European Compliance with the Human Rights Provisions of the Helsinki Final Act. 96th Cong., 2nd sess., March 25, 1980.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Basket Three: Implementation of the Helsinki Accords: Volume XIV: Religious Rights in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. 96th Cong., 2nd sess., May 21, 1980.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Basket Three: Implementation of the Helsinki Accords: Volume XV: Religious and National Dissent in Lithuania. 97th Cong., 1st sess., August 5, 1981.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Basket Three: Implementation of the Helsinki Accords: The Crisis in Poland and its Effects on the Helsinki Process. 97th Cong., 1st sess., December 28, 1981.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Digest. 1986 September.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Fact Sheet: Update on the 33 Imprisoned and Exiled Members of the Soviet Helsinki Groups. 1979.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Fact Sheet: Update on the Soviet Helsinki Movement. 1979
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Fifth Anniversary of the Formation of the Ukranian Helsinki Group. 97th Cong., 1st sess., November 16, 1981.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. The Helsinki Process and East West Relations: Progress in Perspective: A Report on the Positive Aspects of the Implementation of the Helsinki Final Act 1975-1984. 1985.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Implementation of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Findings and Recommendations Five Years after Helsinki. August 1, 1980.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Implementation of the Helsinki Accords: Natan Shcharansky to Mark the 10th Anniversary of the Moscow Helsinki Group. 99th Cong., 2nd sess., May 14, 1986.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. The Madrid CSCE Review Meeting. 1983.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. The Madrid CSCE Review Meeting: Phase IV Interim Report. 1982
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. On Leaving the Soviet Union: Two Surveys Compared: A Statistical Analysis of the Patterns and Procedures in Soviet Emigration. May 1, 1978.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. On the Occasion of the 12th Anniversary of the Signing of the Helsinki Act. 1987.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. On the Right to Emigrate for Religious Reasons: The Case of 10,000 Soviet Evangelical Christians. 1979.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Phase IV of the Madrid CSCE Review Meeting. 97th Cong., 2nd sess., March 23, 1982.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Profiles: The Helsinki Monitors. 1979.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Report of the Study Mission to Europe To the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. December 2, 1976.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Reports of Helsinki Accord Monitors in the Soviet Union: Volume Three of the Documents of the Public Group to Promote Observance of the Helsinki Agreements in the USSR. November 7, 1978.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Revised Supplement to the Report to the Congress of the United States on Implementation of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Findings and Recommendations Two Years After Helsinki. October 25, 1977.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. The Right to Know, The Right to Act: Documents of Helsinki Dissent from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. 1978.
  • U.S. Congress. House. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Soviet Involvement in the Polish Economy. 97th Cong., 2nd sess., April 1, 1962.
  • U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Third Semiannual Report by the President to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. 1977 December.
  • U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Investigations. International Human Rights: Selected Declarations and Agreements. September 1, 1976.
  • U.S. Department of State. First Semiannual Report by the President to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. 1976 December.
  • U.S. Department of State. Second Semiannual Report by the President to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. 1977 June.
  • U.S. Department of State. Fourth Semiannual Report by the President to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. 1978 June.
  • U.S. Department of State. Tenth Semiannual Report: Implementation of Helsinki Final Act: Special Report No. 85. December 1 - May 31, 1980-1981. 1981.
  • U.S. Department of State. Eleventh Semiannual Report: Implementation of Helsinki Final Act: Special Report No. 89. June 1-November 30, 1981. 1981.
  • U.S. Department of State. Thirteenth Semiannual Report: Implementation of Helsinki Final Act: Special Report No. 105. June 1-November 30, 1982. 1982.

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