Czechoslovak Jewish Refugees in the Gulag
Soviet Labour and Pow Camps During World War II As Recollected by Jewish Refugees from Czechoslovakia
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The book provides a detailed look at the Soviet persecution of Jewish refugees, offering twenty-one interviews with Czechoslovak Jewish refugees who found themselves in Soviet labor and prisoner-of-war camps between 1939 and 1941. The interviews tell the story of nearly two thousand Czechoslovak Jews who escaped persecution by German and Hungarian occupation forces and Slovak fascists by fleeing to the East. The Soviets sentenced most of them to long periods of forced labor in the gulags for illegal immigration, espionage, and other arbitrary charges. A specific group consisted of Jews from the Hungarian labor service who either defected to the Soviets or were captured by them. In their chronicle, Dvorak and Hradilek describe four waves of escapes – from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, from the Nisko concentration camp, from Carpathian Ruthenia, and from the aforementioned labor service. Each interview is supplemented by documents and photographs found in the NKVD archives in Ukraine, based on long-term detailed research.
