Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag

Zvi Preigerzon (1900-1969) was a Hebrew writer who lived in the USSR. He was imprisoned in the Gulag for his Zionist views and writings about the life of Jews in the USSR and their suffering during the Holocaust. He is the author of When the Menorah Fades and several other books, short stories, and poems.

Introduction

Author’s Foreword


Part 1. Arrest

Part 2. Interrogation
Citizen Lieutenant Colonel
Lefortovo Prison
My Hebrew Writing
The MGB Informer
The Interrogation
The Initial Protocols
Taraskin
The Letter to Ben-Gurion
The Concluding Protocol
The Encounter with Baazov
Form 206

Part 3. Butyrka Prison
The Sentencing
Church Cell
The Jewish Theater

Part 4. On the Way to Karaganda
The Stolypin Carriage

Part 5. Karaganda
Sand Camp
Camp Rules
My Morning Prayer
Meir Baazov
The Invention
Thieves and Bitches

Part 6. The Eynikeyt Group
Alik Hodorkovsky
Eliyahu Mishpatman
Sasha Sucher
Misha Spivak
Volodya Kerzman
Meir Helfand
Zhmerynka
The Ghetto
The Zionist Group

Part 7. The People in Karaganda Camp
Yechezkel Pulerevitch
Aharon Kricheli
Dr. Leon Lemenev
Itzhak Kahanov (Kogan)
Motl Grubian
Kreinman
Leib Pashtandiker
Jabotinsky
Michail Yankovsky
Bokov
Ermakov
Other Characters in Karaganda Camp

Part 8. In Karaganda Transfer Camp
Abraham Shtukarevich
Israel Avrovich
Zinovy Shulman and Lublin Gymnasia in Odessa
Gitterman

Part 9. On the Way to Inta
Michael Ibambletov
Kononenko
Alexey Ivanovich
Ostrovsky

Part 10. Inta Mineral Prison Camp

Part 11. 4th Abez Prison Camp
The Engineering Team
Suchoruchko
Lihachev
Kalinin
Kargin
Boris Ivanovich
Zeleny
Isaak Hoffman
Shmuel Halkin
Leib Strongin
Gregory Shitz
Yakov Shternberg
Weissman
The Coachman

Part 12. Vorkuta
Barracks Number 18
Kuznetsov
Stalinsky
Kostia Amarnetov
1st River Camp
Stein
Shkolnik
Reminiscence of Odessa
Kaplinsky
Capitalnaya Mine Technical Control Department
Coal Sorting
Getting Paid

Part 13. The 9th Vorkuta Prison Camp
The Beginning of Coal Enrichment Work
The Laboratory of Professor Stadnikov

Part 14. My Fellow Jewish Prisoners in the 9th Vorkuta Camp
David Cohen
Leonid Kantargy
Yosef Kerler
Rotenberg
Hesin
Solomon Fayman
Shaya Bilik
Mordechai Shenkar
Leonid Aronov
Shmuel Ferdman
Menachem Levi
Boris Dinaburg
Michail Shulman
Sasha Eisorovich
George Grin

Part 15. Work on Coal Enrichment: Fresh Winds
The New Laboratory
Fresh Winds
The Rudnik Laboratory and Transfer to the 40th Prison Camp
The Home of Haim and Nehama Solz

Part 16. Release from Vorkuta Prison Camp

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