"We Were Slaves": Deportation to a Soviet Forced Labor Camp during WWII as Depicted in the Memoirs of the Polish-Yiddish Writer Avrom Zak

This essay discusses the memoir Knekht zenen mir geven (Buenos Aires, 1956), by Avrom Zak (1891–1980), a Polish-Yiddish journalist, poet, and prose writer who survived WWII in the Soviet Union. While in the USSR, he was deported in summer 1940 to a forced labor camp in the Republic of Komi, where he...

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Authors: Ruta, Magdalena (Author) ; Piechaczek-Borkowska, Maria (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Penn Press 2021
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2021, Volume: 111, Issue: 1, Pages: 130-154
Further subjects:B 1939–45
B Jewish survivors in the USSR
B Polish Jews
B Gulag literature in Polish
B Deportation
B Holocaust
B Avrom Zak
B Gulag literature in Yiddish
B Memoirs
B Soviet Union
B World War II
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