A Lost World : : the Galician Shtetl and Siberia / / Meier Landau and Lidia Zessin-Jurek.

• Superior document: Fokus Series ; Volume 15
• VerfasserIn: Landau, Meier,; Jurek, Lidia,
• TeilnehmendeR: Jurek, Lidia,
• Place / Publishing House: Paderborn, Germany : : Brill Schöningh,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Fokus ; Volume 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (419 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Long Jewish Roads to Safety - Meier Landau's Life as a Refugee -- Notes on Editing -- Meier Landau A Lost World: The Galician Shtetl and Siberia -- Dedication -- Part I -- My Early Childhood -- Grandfather Meier's Business -- Mościska -- Mother - A Progressive Woman in the Shtetl -- My Parents' Marriage -- Father's Business: A Flour Mill -- My Education -- Other Members of My Family -- My Boyhood -- The Holidays and the Impressions They Left on Me in My Youth -- Father's Struggle for Our Sustenance -- Problems With My Education -- Gimnazjum -- Leaving Home for My Third Grade at the Gimnazjum -- Sister Lusia's Marriage and Wedding -- On Marriages and Wedding Customs -- Sister Adela's Marriage -- As Refugees in Vienna -- Drafted Into the Austrian Army -- Officer's School -- Occupation Forces in Russia -- Return to Vienna -- My Family's Return to Poland -- My Life in Vienna -- Visits Home to My Family -- Doctoral Thesis and the Interwar Years -- Part II -- The Russians Are Coming -- What Happened to the Trade? -- American Dollar Under Russian Occupation -- Changes in the Employment Market -- Nationalization of Private Industry -- Nationalization of Stores and Houses -- The militsiya and the Secret Police -- Daily Life -- The Refugee Problem: Crossing the Border -- Daily Routine Again -- The First Deportations -- The Soviet-German "Repatriation Plan" -- The Second Deportation -- Arriving at the Station -- On Our Way to Soviet Russia -- Siberian Destination -- The Big Lie -- Families Torn Apart -- Arrival at the Labor Camp -- Lumberjacks in the Woods of Ural -- Working Conditions -- Religion in the Labor Camp -- Food and Supplies -- Clothing -- The First Winter in the Woods -- Medical Care and Sanitation -- Being a Patient -- Our Wages and Our Payment -- Life in the Posiolok.

The Russian Way of Life -- Reunited -- Posiolok Topliovka -- Informing, Reporting, and Denunciation -- The Soviet Idea of Responsibility -- The Outbreak of the German-Soviet War -- Liberation From Our Deportee Status -- On Our Way to Sarapul Along the Kama River -- Arrival in Sarapul -- Sailing South Along the Volga -- Inmates From Corrective Labor Camps -- Arrival in Astrakhan -- On Our Way to Guryev and Uzbekistan (Central Asia) -- Our Arrival in Bukhara -- About Bukhara and Uzbekistan -- Changes in Our Situation, June 1942 -- Death by Typhus, Death by Hunger -- Runek -- The Russian Army -- The Polish Army and Welfare Organization in the USSR -- Typhus in My Family -- Polish Exodus From the USSR, August 1942 -- After the Polish Evacuation -- Kermine -- The Soviet Ars Vivendi -- Passportization -- Selling Our Last Possessions -- Leaving Kermine and Uzbekistan -- Starting Our Journey to Ashkhabad -- Leaving Ashkhabad for the Iranian Border -- Crossing the Russian-Iranian Border -- At the Iranian Border -- Arrival in Meshed -- Teheran -- The Jewish Agency and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee -- The Joint -- Our Private Life in Teheran -- Life in Teheran During Our Stay in Occupied Iran -- My Family's Departure for America -- My Departure From Teheran -- Afterword -- Image Section -- Index.