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During World War II, Soviet authorities deported several hundred thousand Polish citizens to the gulag; many died there. In their first English translation, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives presents firsthand accounts from more than 150 Polish Jewish survivors of occupation, deportation, and violence. These documents offer extraordinary information and insight on the activities of the Polish resistance movement, Jewish religious and community life, forced-labor conditions, the experiences of women and children, and more.

Dr. Maciej Siekierski, a former research fellow at the Hoover Institution, is curator emeritus of the European collections at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, specializing in Poland and Eastern Europe.

Dr. Feliks Tych (1929–2015) was an eminent Polish historian, director of the Jewish Historical Institut in Warsaw (1996–2006), and author or editor of several books in Polish on history and the Holocaust.

Foreword, by Eric Wakin Note on the Translation Polish Jews: Prisoners of Soviet Camps, by Feliks Tych The Hoover Institution’s Polish Collections and the History of the Testimonies of Deported Jews, by Maciej Siekierski Testimonies Appendix Glossary About the Editors Index of Names Index of Places

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I Saw the Angel of Death Experiences of Polish Jews Deported to the USSR during World War II

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