The first of eight programmes Avital Shcharansky
Next Year in Jerusalem
On the evening of Friday 4 July 1974 Avital Shcharansky got married in a ceremony in a Moscow apartment. Early the next morning her new husband, Anatoly, waved goodbye at Moscow Airport as she left for Israel. She has not seen him since.
At first he was refused a visa, then he was arrested, tried and sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment. It will be another ten years before he can leave prison - he may never be able to leave Russia. Tonight Avital talks about her life since she left Russia, a life of waiting and campaigning to free her husband and other Jewish refusniks from jail in the USSR.;
Director ELIZABETH GORT
Series producer JIM MURRAY