Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back
Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag. In 1939, as the Nazis and Soviets invaded…
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Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back
Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag. In 1939, as the Nazis and Soviets invaded Poland, many Polish citizens found themselves swept up by the Soviet occupation and sent into the Gulag. There many died of starvation, disease, and exhaustion, and some were killed by criminals and camp guards.
Opening with the outbreak of World War II in Poland, Margolin relates its devastating impact on the Jews and his arrest and imprisonment in the Gulag system. One such victim was Julius Margolin, a Pinsk-born Jewish philosopher and writer living in Palestine who was in Poland on family matters.Margolin's Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back offers a powerful, first-person account of one of the most shocking chapters of the violent twentieth century. During his incarceration from 1940 to 1945, he nearly
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