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Around 1940, when Jewish people were persecuted [during the so-called Great Terror] [5] he was arrested and sentenced to ten years of imprisonment. He spent seven years in a camp near Karaganda [see Gulag] [6]. He returned in 1953 after Stalin died. Shoil was rehabilitated [see Rehabilitation in the Soviet Union] [7]. The authorities returned his party membership card and all his awards. Those years in the camps must have been so horrific that he never told me or his son Gennadiy anything about this period of his life.
Location
Moscow
Moskva
Russia
Interview
roman reznikov