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have a lot of friends, and they are completely suitable to the local society. My older daughter is an advanced piano player,

and she passed exams at McGill University with the best mark. My younger daughter is a talented ballerina, her pictures

are everywhere in Ballet studios, she is an advanced dancer, and she also was chosen to enter the National Ballet School

in Toronto from dozens of other pretendents. Their French is nice and literary, they also advanced in English. And we are

not on welfare any more! We could be peaceful and useful members of the local society if we would be given a chance to

stay here. (Group of documents # 4 in Supplements are corresponding to this paragraph).

THIS IS THE BEST PROOF THAT OUR TROUBLES IN ISRAEL ERUPTED NOT BECAUSE IT WAS OUR FAULT (as the

commissioners tried to show), AND NOT IN RESULT OF OUR "EXAGGERATIONS"! WE FACED PERSECUTIONS IN

ISRAEL BECAUSE OF OBJECTIVE REASONS AND COULD NOT GO BACK BECAUSE OF RISK TO LIFE, EXTREME

SANCTIONS, AND INHUMAN TREATMENT. OUR REMOVAL TO ISRAEL WOULD BRING US TO A TRAGIC END.

Theoretical suggestions if people like us could face a tragic end (without figuring out the impact our personal claim

events: as commissioners did) in Israel are completely useless in our case because our case and our personalities are

unique.

Please, give us a chance to stay here, because if we would be removed back to Israel lives of my children, my wife, my

mother, and my life, would be terminated! Please, do not send us towards tragic end. Try to understand your full

responsibility for what will happen if we would be sent back to Israel.

1.7. MY FINAL STATEMENT

As the most honest people I am not impudently self-confidential. I might be shocked by aggressive and ironical

interrogators (as Mrs. Malka): but this is just one more proof of my honesty and innocence. To support our refugee claim

we presented to the Immigration Board so many documentary proofs as probably no refugee claimants in Canadian

Immigration's history! All of them, including legal, and medical documents, official correspondence and newspapers'

articles, related to me, other documents, were ignored, and only one document was considered as "non-related" without

any reasonable explanations. If the forces, which acted against us, could encourage such an outraged injustice and unfair

treatment of us even here, in Canada, in Israel they could eliminate us for sure. Sending us to Israel you must realize that

you send us to death. Removal to Israel means for us a death penalty. But Canada has no death penalty even in

Canadian criminal code! ! ! Especially, for children! I ask you to think about it while composing you final decision. Please...

Sincerely yours,

Lev Gunin

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Four Mrs. Louis-Phillippe SIMARD, Manager, Post Determination Review

FROM Lev GUNIN (FILE Number 2948-6524/ 95/76/23/18

ID: 3082-7125/7174/7220/7231/7317/ )

DOCUMENT NUMBER 2

2.1. I was in grade 9, when voluntarism and vulnerability of my class teacher, PERFILOVA Maria Michajlovna, converted me from a good school pupil and a promising

young musician into a person without future, persecuted by KGB. She was a communist party member and an outraged careerist. She took one of my school essays

and took it to KGB. She also made an open public court over me at the school, not waiting for KGB command. Officially KGB rejected her accusations. They found

nothing, which could be considered as anti-Sovetism, in my composition. But in ex-USSR an obstruction, which Perfilova made me at school, and the very fact that she

was in KGB building to report on me was enough to devastate my whole life and to cause what it caused. It is also possible that rejecting Perfilova (what made her

insane) they secretly put my name on their black list already by then.

2.2. I was prevented from becoming a student of a Music College or university, and later, when I entered music studies by a miracle and graduated, I was prevented

from a good musical carrier. In 1979 I was brutally beaten because of an order from KGB. During many years my social and professional status, my health, my privacy,

my security, even my freedom and my life were every minute under a threat. Nobody knows what I came through -, and did not become an alcoholic, or sadist, and

never violated any criminal rule.

2.3. Because I felt more secure among other persecuted people, I started to cooperate with a number of human rights groups and movements and with some other

groups and organizations. Most of them were non-conformist art and poetry \ prose groups. I formed my own poetry circle where I was a leader. I also organized a

movement in opposition to ideologically motivated demolition or levelation of Bobruysk's 18-19 century architecture, mostly Jewish. I organized mass photographing

of the center of Bobruysk. The local authorities have unofficially forbidden that. "Militia" several times arrested my supporters, and me, our photo films were

confiscated. Only in the end of 1980-s I contacted Mr. V. Senderov, Mr. V. Batcshev, Mrs. Elena Bonner and other world-famous dissidents and human rights activists,

and also correspondents of the west media in Moscow. Only by then I already had permanent contacts with some representatives of foreign parliaments and

embassies, but never with any intelligence. I also maintained close cooperation with two different forces: Frankfurt-based NTS and National Front of Belarus.

2.4. As a person who was deeply involved in the cultural self-determination process of the Soviet Jews I also was the first activist in Belarus, who combined several

goals together. They were: studies of Yiddish and Hebrew languages and the Jewish history, revitalization of Bobruysk's Jewish cultural and historical heritage,