Surviving in the Soviet Union

doi:10.1017/9781108900447.018

15 - Surviving in the Soviet Union

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2025

Eliyana R. Adler

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Marion Kaplan and

Natalia Aleksiun

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Marion Kaplan: Affiliation:
New York University
Natalia Aleksiun: Affiliation:
University of Florida

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This chapter treats the daily life experiences of Jews who survived the Second World War in the interior regions of the Soviet Union. Included among this group were Soviet citizens who evacuated eastward ahead of invading German armies as well as refugees from Poland, the Baltic states, Romania, and Czechoslovakia.

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USSR Poland Czechoslovakia Lithuania Holocaust refugee survival evacuation deportation central Asia repatriation migration gender

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Information: The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 249 - 264

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108900447.018 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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