Survival on the margins : Polish Jewish refugees in the wartime Soviet Union /
Survival on the Margins tells the story of Polish Jewish flight into Soviet Ukraine and Belarus, deportation to the Urals and Siberia, amnesty to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and subsequent repatriation to Poland after the war. It looks at what it meant for central European shoemakers and homemakers to...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | Survival on the Margins tells the story of Polish Jewish flight into Soviet Ukraine and Belarus, deportation to the Urals and Siberia, amnesty to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and subsequent repatriation to Poland after the war. It looks at what it meant for central European shoemakers and homemakers to encounter the overwhelming social and environmental diversity of the USSR in the midst of a punishing war as well as what their experiences can teach us about World War II and the Holocaust. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 433 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674988026 0674988027 |