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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 ...
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 ...
Alexander Michael Dolgun (29 September 1926 – 28 August 1986) was an American survivor of the Soviet Gulag who wrote about his experiences in 1975 after being allowed to leave the Soviet Union. Pre-Gulag years
This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country.In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government was responsible for the establishment and/or operation of the camp regardless of the camp's location, but this principle can be, or it can appear to be, departed from in such cases as where a country's borders or name has changed or it ...
In 1943 Werner was accused of espionage and sentenced to 10 years of hard labor in Stalin's gulag. The prison went on for 13 years. Margaret Werner and many women found ways to adjust to the cruel conditions they were forced to live through. [3] Werner is the only American woman to have survived the harsh imprisonment lifestyle. [4]
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]
The book was praised for bringing public awareness to American emigration to the Soviet Union in the wake of the great depression [10] [1] and the presence of American citizens in the Gulag system. [11] [12] Reviewers found the life stories of individuals in the Soviet Union to be engaging and well-told.
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.