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Gabriella Burman and her "twin."

' children talk about their
twins in their speeches at
their celebrations.
West Bloomfield's David
O'Desky celebrated his .bar
mitzvah in November. He
shared it with Stanislav Gor-
shunsky after writing to him
for several months. Adat
Shalom Synagogue helped
the O'Desky family arrange
the twinning.
The week of the bar mitz-
vah, when most households
are frantic with last-minute
details and minor disasters,
David's family received an
unexpected call from the
synagogue. The Gorshunsky
family had been granted per-
mission to leave the Soviet
Union.
Gabriella Burman's twinn-
ing in 1985 holds a special
poignancy for her parents.
They visited the Soviet Union
and met the family of Anna
Yoffe, Gabriella's twin.
Alexander Yoffe, a brilliant
mathematician, has been an
active refusenik. Soviet
authorities have harassed
him since he applied to leave
in 1972. In 1985, when the In-
ternational Youth Conference
took place in Moscow, Yoffe
was ordered to leave the city.
When he applied to emigrate,
he lost his university
teaching position. He now
teaches elementary-age
children, and tutors whenever
he can. Anna's mother was a
computer programmer and
now teaches sewing. Recently
Anna's brother, who is mar-
ried, was allowed to emigrate
with his wife and young baby.
Estela Burman vividly
remembers her family's
preparation to visit the Soviet
Union and the Yoffes.

"Before we left we were
thoroughly briefed by the
Soviet Jewry Committee
here. They have people who
are excellent at this. We were
told how you cannot take-lists
of names and phone numbers
with you, as it is not permit-
ted. You have to be very
creative in finding ways of
coding such things so you can
contact people there. They
gave us maps of the subway
stations and told us of
everything we were to ex-
pect."
"When we arrived, we call-
ed the Yoffes from the airport
but Alexander wasn't home
and the son answered. We ar-
ranged to call back later that
evening. My husband, Mat-
thew, called at 10 p.m. 'from
the lobby of the hotel as we
weren't sure the telephone in
the room wouldn't be
monitored. We arranged to
visit them the next evening.
Alexander would wait for us
at a certain subway station
with a Time magazine in his
hand.
"Everything went off very
well. We took a bus to his
apartment and we had a
wonderful visit. They are a
lovely family. There were
books all over the apartment,
which was very small.
"I was surprised how un-
complicated it was to contact
them. As far as we know we
weren't followed, possibly
because we were part of a
large group — 37 people —
and we had no problems even
when we were on our own."
"Alexander Yoffe is quite a
remarkable man," she says.
"He went on a hunger strike
to get his son out. When we
left he requested someone

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