A Repression of Czechoslovak Citizens in the USSR

• Authors: Jan Hornik
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Around 30,000 citizens of pre-war Czechoslovakia were persecuted in the Soviet Union, at least 5.000 originated from Czech lands. One of the groups consist of the people who in the period of 1939-1942 sought refuge in the USSR from German or Hungarian Nazism, or who wanted to actively fight against it. They ended up in the Gulag, from which they were freed during an amnesty linked to the creation of a Czechoslovak unit in the USSR. Many were Czechoslovak Jews, including those who escaped from the Nazi concentration camp in Poland. Nisko, while thousands were inhabitants of Carpathian Ruthenia.

Keywords

EN

repression; persecutions; refugees; Czechoslovak citizens; Czechoslovak Jews; SMERSH; NKVD; forced labour; victims; witnesses

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, European and Regional Studies
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 73-78

Dates

published

2015-08-01

online

2015-09-08

Contributors

author

Jan Hornik

• Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/auseur-2015-0007