On Mothers Day in 1979, five members of the group Seattle Action for Soviet Jewry, wearing t-shirts reading "Free Soviet Jews," picketed outside the Pacific Science Center to protest the touring exhibit "Soviet Woman." Established in 1975 in help Jews in the Soviet Union, Seattle Action for Soviet Jewry sent aid, gifts and letters to the USSR, and worked to improve U.S. laws to benefit emigres. The group was was protesting the idealized view of Soviet women presented in the exhibit, and compared them to Ida Nudel, who was exiled in Siberia at the time, for her support of the "Prisoners of Zion" in the Soviet Union.

Here, Judy Balint, chairperson of Seattle Action for Soviet Jewry, hands literature to a visitor to the "Soviet Woman" exhibit at the Pacific Science Center.

Text on protest sign: Mothers' Day greetings to Ida Nudel in Siberia

Caption information source: "A Special 'Card' For the Soviets" by Don Tewksebury, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 14, 1979, p.A3.