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.