Oral history interview with Olga Plam, [electronic resource] / interviewed by Brandon Springer and Avery Mills, and filmed by Elaine Chang, 2010. 2010.

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Plam, Olga, 1937-,. Oral history interview with Olga Plam, [electronic resource] / interviewed by Brandon Springer and Avery Mills, and filmed by Elaine Chang, 2010.

Oral history interview with Olga Plam, [electronic resource] / interviewed by Brandon Springer and Avery Mills, and filmed by Elaine Chang, 2010. 2010.

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Painter Olga Plam emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States with her husband and son in 1977, after three years of trying to obtain an exit visa. She vividly describes the persecution experienced by Jews in the Soviet Union, which banned religious observance and did not consider Jews to be Russians, a persecution that increased in intensity for those who were trying to leave. She describes the resettlement process in the United States, including four years spent living at the Mountain Research Station, learning English and about American culture through the kindness of new American friends, and how she went about regaining a sense of Jewish tradition. She also relates the personal and political efforts made by herself and others in the United States to obtain an exit visa for her father, Naum Meiman, a prominent mathematician - a process that took 13 years.

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