Co-winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust
Research The forgotten story of 200,000 Polish Jews who escaped the
Holocaust as refugees stranded in remote corners of the USSR.
Between 1940 and 1946, about 200,000 Jewish refugees from Poland
lived and toiled in the harsh Soviet interior. They endured hard
labor, bitter cold, and extreme deprivation. But out of reach of
the Nazis, they escaped the fate of millions of their
coreligionists in the Holocaust. Survival on the Margins is the
first comprehensive account in English of their experiences. The
refugees fled Poland after the German invasion in 1939 and settled
in the Soviet territories newly annexed under the
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Facing hardship, and trusting little in
Stalin, most spurned the offer of Soviet citizenship and were
deported to labor camps in unoccupied areas of the east. They were
on their own, in a forbidding wilderness thousands of miles from
home. But they inadvertently escaped Hitler’s 1941 advance into
the Soviet Union. While war raged and Europe’s Jews faced
genocide, the refugees were permitted to leave their settlements
after the Soviet government agreed to an amnesty. Most spent the
remainder of the war coping with hunger and disease in Soviet
Central Asia. When they were finally allowed to return to Poland in
1946, they encountered the devastation of the Holocaust, and many
stopped talking about their own ordeals, their stories eventually
subsumed within the central Holocaust narrative. Drawing on
untapped memoirs and testimonies of the survivors, Eliyana Adler
rescues these important stories of determination and suffering on
behalf of new generations.
General
Imprint: |
Harvard University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2020 |
Authors: |
Eliyana R. Adler
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 45mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
456 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-98802-6 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-674-98802-7 |
Barcode: |
9780674988026 |
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