page_title: Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry
section_title: Activities
hierarchical_section_title: Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry / Activities
caption_attribution_description: English: Title: &quot;If our voices die, so do their hopes. March for Soviet Jewry Solidarity Sunday May 31&quot; Description: Prison-made menorah in front of prison bars. Creator/Photographer: The Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry Medium: Poster Date: undated Persistent URL: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&amp;object_id=114616 Repository:American Jewish Historical Society Parent Collection: National Conference on Soviet Jewry Records, selected materials Call Number: I-181.027 Rights Information: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights. For more copyright information, click here. See more information about this image and others at CJH Digital Collections. To inquire about rights and permissions, or if you have a question regarding the collection to which the image belongs, please contact the Reference Department of the American Jewish Historical Society by email. Digital images created by the Gruss Lipper Digital Laboratory at the Center for Jewish History.
context_page_description: The Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry was founded in 1971, as a non-governmental grassroots organization that worked to secure human rights for Jews in the Soviet Union. It served as an umbrella agency for a number of regional organizations of the Soviet Jewry movement. In the 1980 GNYCSJ was renamed Coalition for Soviet Jewry.
context_section_description: The organization gathered information on the conditions of Jews in the USSR, mostly from the American tourists visiting refuseniks in Soviet Union, and informed federal, state, and local government officials, thus influencing the Soviet-American relations during the two final decades of the Cold War. The GNYCSJ organized public events aimed to raise public awareness of the plight of the Soviet Jewry, including annual Solidarity Sunday rallies that gathered large crowds of supporters in New York City. GNYCSJ co-sponsored the 1987 Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews in Washington, D.C. attended by 250,000 participants.
caption: GNYCSJ poster promoting a Soviet Jewry Solidarity Sunday event.
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