‘We couldn’t speak one word of Russian,’ Ruth Usherenko recalled. ‘They didn’t feed us. When people died, they didn’t bury them – they put them in the forest and the wolves were eating them.’
[...] The three women settled in the Ukrainian town of Dnepropetrovsk, where they worked as milliners. The sisters married – Ruth to a shoemaker and Toni to an aviation engineer – and in 1981, after years of trying to leave the Soviet Union, the families were able to emigrate to Brooklyn.
‘We couldn’t speak one word of Russian,’ Ruth Usherenko recalled. ‘They didn’t feed us. When people died, they didn’t bury them – they put them in the forest and the wolves were eating them.’
[...] The three women settled in the Ukrainian town of Dnepropetrovsk, where they worked as milliners. The sisters married – Ruth to a shoemaker and Toni to an aviation engineer – and in 1981, after years of trying to leave the Soviet Union, the families were able to emigrate to Brooklyn.
[...] reports about the mass deportation of Jews from the Western border region of the Soviet Union, especially from White Russia, the Ukraine, Eastern Galicia, Bukovina, and Bessarabia. According to one report, the deportation affected mainly the Jewish citizens who had relatives in America or Western Europe; other sources maintain that the whole Jewish population of some territories was deported.Som sagt, väldigt lite är känt om dessa deportationer och det är fortfarande näst intill omöjligt att få tillgång till de relevanta ryska arkiv som skulle kunna innehålla uppgifter om vilka som deporterades och var.


[...] reports about the mass deportation of Jews from the Western border region of the Soviet Union, especially from White Russia, the Ukraine, Eastern Galicia, Bukovina, and Bessarabia. According to one report, the deportation affected mainly the Jewish citizens who had relatives in America or Western Europe; other sources maintain that the whole Jewish population of some territories was deported.Som sagt, väldigt lite är känt om dessa deportationer och det är fortfarande näst intill omöjligt att få tillgång till de relevanta ryska arkiv som skulle kunna innehålla uppgifter om vilka som deporterades och var.

Det är egentligen ointressant i sammanhanget, eftersom argumentet går ut på att Stalin deporterade tyska judar en masse som hamnade i det sovjetiska ockupationsområdet, alldeles oavsett om de deporterats via Treblinka, Sobibor, Auschwitz, Belzec, eller någon annanstans. I fallet med de två tyska judinnorna som jag citerade tidigare så hade de deporterats av tyskarna till Gross-Rosen, varefter de föll under sovjetisk kontroll.Du måste vara medlem för att kunna kommentera