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Werner is the only American woman who was held in the Gulag to tell about it. Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American in the Gulag (ISBN 0-394-49497-0), by a member of the US Embassy, and I Was a Slave in Russia (ISBN 0-8159-5800-5), an American factory owner's son, were two more American citizens interned who wrote of their ordeal. They were ...
On 13 December 1948, [1] Dolgun, a US citizen, was working as a file clerk at the Embassy. During his lunch break, he was taken into custody by the Soviet State Security, the MGB. He was interned in the Lubyanka and Lefortovo prisons in Moscow. He was falsely accused of espionage against the Soviet Union and endured a year of sleep and food ...
Victor Herman, American, then worker of Ford Motors in the Soviet Union; John H. Noble, American businessman in Germany. Isaiah Oggins, American communist and spy for the Soviet secret police. Thomas Sgovio, American artist, ex-Communist. Margaret Werner Tobien, together with her mother they were accused of espionage in 1943. Earlier, in 1937 ...
Thomas Sgovio (7 October 1916 – 3 July 1997) was an American artist, ex-Communist, and former inmate of a Soviet Union GULAG camp in Kolyma. His father was an Italian American communist, deported by the US authorities to the USSR because of his political activities. [1]
A Russian court has sentenced Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to six-and-a-half years in prison. (Alexander Nemenov / AFP - Getty Images)
John H. Noble (September 4, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American survivor of the Soviet Gulag system, who wrote several books which described his experiences in it after he was permitted to leave the Soviet Union and return to the United States.
Victor Herman (September 25, 1915 – March 25, 1985) was a Jewish-American who spent 18 years as a Soviet prisoner in the Gulags of Siberia. [1] [2] [3] At 16 years of age, his family (and about 300 other Ford Motor Company families) went to work in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s but met tragic fates during the Stalin purges.
The harrowing ordeals of three Americans jailed in Russia came to a happy ending around midnight on Thursday, when they stepped off a plane and into emotional embraces with family members waiting ...