Prisoner of the Soviet secret police: Boris Penson, Soviet Jew: let my people go!
A poster of a young man's portrait crossed by dark vertical bars, headed "Prisoner of the Soviet Secret Police, Boris Penson, Soviet Jew", between two Stars of David above the slogan "Let my people go!". The prison bars and the Exodus slogan carry the moral weight of enslavement and deliverance onto the case, and the sponsor prints its New York address and telephone number.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1970
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (New York)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Nixon Administration
- Leader
- Richard Nixon
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Migration, Race and ethnicity
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- U.S. publication without copyright notice; LoC: no known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Text on the object
Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked
Prisoner of the Soviet Secret Police BORIS PENSON SOVIET JEW LET MY PEOPLE GO ! Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry 200 WEST 72nd STREET • SUITES 30-31 • NEW YORK, N.Y. 10023 (212) 799-8900
Two six-pointed stars flank the name line; they are marks, not text.
