My Four Years in Soviet Russia (Jews of Poland) - Hardcover

Erlichson, Yitzkhak; Erlichson, Yitzhak

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1618112546 ISBN 13: 9781618112545

Verlag: Academic Studies Press, 2013

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Adds an important primary source document to the history of Polish Jews during World War II.--Book News, Inc. "This remarkable memoir, first published in Yiddish in 1953, gives a vivid and moving account of the experiences of a young Jew who in 1939 fled from his native town in south-central Poland to the Soviet Union. Essential reading for all those interested in the Jewish fate during the Second World War."--Antony Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University "My Four Years in Soviet Russia is deftly translated into English by Maurice Wolfthal and provides American readers with a truly candid, deftly written, and intensely personal autobiography of what life was like in Communist Russia during the Second World War. Informed and informative, My Four Years in Soviet Russia is a fascinating read and would prove a welcome addition to academic library Soviet Studies reference collections."--The Midwest Book Review Bookwatch

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This is the story of Yitzkhak Erlichson, a Polish Jew who was nineteen years old when he escaped the Nazis by fleeing toward the USSR from his hometown, Wierzbnik. There he hoped to find a land true to its official ideals of justice, equality, and brotherhood. Arrested as an English spy, he was sent to prisons and slave-labor camps, and after his release worked and traveled in the USSR. To his dismay, he found injustice, inequality, and anti-Semitism equal to that of his native Poland. Attempting to join the Polish army forming in the USSR, he was told it was "only for Poles." After the war, and after he met and married his wife Fania, while in Russia, they return to Wierzbnik together. There he learned that none of his family survived the German occupation. This fascinating memoir sheds new light on the realities of life in the USSR during the Second World War. Translated from Yiddish.

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• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1618112546
• ISBN 13: 9781618112545
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 198