Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag / / Zvi Preigerzon; ed. by Alex Lahav.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Preigerzon, Zvi,
• HerausgeberIn: Lahav, Alex,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 p.)

Zvi Preigerzon wrote memoirs about his time in the Gulag in 1958, long before Solzhenitsyn and without any knowledge of the other publications on this subject. It was one of the first eyewitness accounts of the harsh reality of Soviet Gulags. Even after the death of Stalin, when the whole Gulag system was largely disbanded, writing them could be regarded as an act of heroism. Preigerzon attempted to document and analyze his own prison camp experience and portray the Jewish prisoners he encountered in forced labor camps. Among these people, we meet scientists, engineers, famous Jewish writers and poets, young Zionists, a devoted religious man, a horse wagon driver, a Jewish singer of folk songs, and many, many others. As Preigerzon put it, “Each one had his own story, his own soul, and his own tragedy.”

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 -- Introduction -- The Sentencing -- Church Cell -- The Jewish Theater -- Part 4: On the Way to Karaganda -- Introduction -- 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 Sukher -- Misha Spivak -- Volodya Kerzman -- Meir Gelfond -- Zhmerynka -- The Ghetto -- The Zionist Group -- Part 7: The People in Karaganda Camp -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- Abraham Shtukarevich -- Israel Avrovich -- Zinovy Shulman and Lublin Gymnasia in Odessa -- Gitterman -- Part 9: On the Way to Inta -- Introduction -- Michael Ibambletov -- Kononenko -- Alexey Ivanovich -- Ostrovsky -- Part 10: Inta Mineral Prison Camp -- Part 11: 4th Abez Prison Camp -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- The Beginning of Coal Enrichment Work -- The Laboratory of Professor Stadnikov -- Part 14: My Fellow Jewish Prisoners in the 9th Vorkuta Camp -- Introduction -- 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 -- Images -- Index