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Despite the dangers, they came year after year to the dreaded Soviet Union to help their lost brothers and sisters rediscover their lost heritage. They came to bring needed supplies, to show they cared, and to help in whatever way possible.\r\rAnd help they did. They succeeded in fanning the small sparks of the Russian ba’al teshuvah movement into a burning flame. Then, when the Iron Curtain finally fell, the Vaad only redoubled its efforts to help the Russian Jews transition to fully religious lives in Eretz Yisroel, America, and elsewhere. In fact, the nucleus of today’s religious Russian Jewish communities was created in great part thanks to the efforts of Rabbi Mordechai Neustadt and the shlichim of the Vaad.\r\rFor decades, these stories of incredible mesirus nefesh remained solely in the possession of the brave individuals who experienced them. Now, they can finally be told, and they will leave you awestruck.\r\rTwo great catastrophes befell the Jewish people in the 20th century -- The Holocaust and the destruction of Jewish life in the Soviet Union, behind the \"Iron Curtain.\" Though the impact of the former is widely publicized and recorded, the destructive effect of the latter is relatively unknown. Yet, in some ways it was no less devastating.  \r\r \r\rThe thoroughly evil Communist regime not only succeeded in eradicating Jewish life throughout the USSR, but by banning all forms of religious practice, they erased the name of Hashem from the hearts and minds of almost all Jews there. They engendered so much fear that the next two or three generations became thoroughly ignorant of their Jewish heritage and were terrified to even be identified as Jews. 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They had no choice but to go about their organizational work without publicity.\r\r \r\rThe purpose of this book is to finally tell that story.\r\r \r\rAbout the Authors\r\r\rYaakov Astor, Editor-in-Chief of Zman Magazine, has written, co-written or edited more than twenty-five books. His most recent books are Rav Avigdor Miller on Emunah and Bitachon, The Hidden Hand: The Holocaust, and The Hidden Hand: Uncovering Divine Providence in Major Events of the 20th Century.\r\r \r\rA former yeshivah teacher and principal, he was also editor of Nehemiah and Trei Asar, Vol. 1, in the ArtScroll Tanach Series. 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