Bonner May Take Mother Along When She Returns Home
Yelena Bonner may take her elderly mother home with her when she recovers from her planned heart and eye treatment and rejoins her husband, Soviet dissident Andrei D. Sakharov, in the closed city of Gorky next spring, relatives said today.
Ruth Bonner, 85, who spent 17 years in prison camps and internal exile in the Soviet Union a half-century ago, has lived in the United States since 1980 at the family’s insistence, Yelena Bonner’s son-in-law, Efrem Yankelevich, said.
“It’s difficult for her here because she doesn’t speak English and she worries about her daughter,” he said.
“I don’t want to sound too gloomy, but if she parts with her daughter now, she’s probably never going to see her ever again.”
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