Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag

Zvi Preigerzon wrote memoirs about his time in the Gulag in 1958, one of the first eyewitness accounts of the harsh reality of Soviet Gulags. He attempted to document and analyze his own prison camp experience and portray the Jewish prisoners he encountered in forced labor camps.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 244 pages
Publication date: 13 October 2022
Publisher: Academic Studies Press

Zvi Preigerzon penned memoirs about his experiences in the Gulag in 1958, long before the works of Solzhenitsyn and without any awareness of the other publications on this subject. It stands as one of the earliest firsthand accounts of the harsh realities of the Soviet Gulags. Even after Stalin's demise, when the Gulag system was largely dismantled, writing about these experiences could be considered an act of heroism. Preigerzon aimed to document and analyze his own prison camp experience, as well as portray the Jewish prisoners he encountered in forced labor camps. Among these individuals, we meet scientists, engineers, renowned Jewish writers and poets, young Zionists, a devout religious man, a horse wagon driver, a Jewish singer of folk songs, and many others. As Preigerzon aptly stated, "Each one had his own story, his own soul, and his own tragedy."

Zvi Preigerzon penned memoirs about his experiences in the Gulag in 1958, long before the works of Solzhenitsyn and without any awareness of the other publications on this subject. It stands as one of the earliest firsthand accounts of the harsh realities of the Soviet Gulags. Even after Stalin's demise, when the Gulag system was largely dismantled, writing about these experiences could be considered an act of heroism. Preigerzon aimed to document and analyze his own prison camp experience, as well as portray the Jewish prisoners he encountered in forced labor camps. Among these individuals, we meet scientists, engineers, renowned Jewish writers and poets, young Zionists, a devout religious man, a horse wagon driver, a Jewish singer of folk songs, and many others. As Preigerzon aptly stated, "Each one had his own story, his own soul, and his own tragedy."

Weight: 22g
Dimension: 228 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781644699041