Czechoslovak Jewish Refugees in the Gulag : Soviet Labour and Pow Camps During World War II As Recollected by Jewish Refugees from Czechoslovakia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dvořák, Jan.

Contributor:

Hradilek, Adam.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Prague : Karolinum Press, 2025.

Summary:

Containing meticulous research of a long under-represented part of both the Nazi and Soviet repressions, this book provides a rich documentation of the Gulag environment as told by Jewish refugees._x000D__x000D_An in-depth look into the Soviet persecution of Jewish refugees, this book offers twenty-one different interviews with Czechoslovak Jewish refugees who found themselves in Soviet labor and POWcamps between 1939 and 1941. They represent around two thousand Czechoslovak Jews who escaped persecution from German and Hungarian occupational forces and Slovak fascists by fleeing to the East. The Soviets sentenced most of them to long stints of forced labour in the Gulags for illegal immigration, espionage, and other arbitrary accusations. A specific group was formed by the Jews from the Hungarian labour service who either defected to or were captured by the Soviets._x000D__x000D_Dvořák and Hradilek chronicle four waves of escape--those from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Nisko concentration camp, Carpathian Ruthenia, and the aforementioned labour service. Thorough and clear, every interview coincides with supplementary documents and photographs found in the NKVD archives, sourced from Ukraine._x000D_

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction

In the crosshairs of the Gestapo and the NKVD

Forbidden Memory

I. Refugees from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

Sigmund Hladík

Alice Salamon Kupferman

Hanan Ron (Hanuš Rosenbaum)

II. Deportees and refugees from the Nazi camp in Zarzecze near Nisko

Karel Borský (Kurt Biheller)

Moritz (Moshe) Friedner

Bedřich (Fred) Morgenstern

Marek (Mordechai) Neuer

Yehuda Parma (Leopold Presser)

III. Refugees from the territory of pre-war Czechoslovakia annexed by Hungary

Ernest Vider

Natan Landau

Mikuláš (Zvi) Faerber

Samuel Friedmann

Zoltán Štern

Karel Vaš

Andrej Štern

Ernest Breiner

IV. Deserters from auxiliary labour units of the Hungarian army and prisoners of war in internment camps

Jakob Friedmann

Michael Lavi (Lebovič)

Ladislav (Les) Maget

Salomon Desider

Ludvík Kellner

I Went Through the Hell of a Soviet Labour Camp (Ludvík Kellner)

List of abbreviations

Abbreviations of Gulag camps

List of sources and literature used

Editorial note

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

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ISBN:

80-246-5927-1

OCLC:

1519120153