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Murmansk

Port city in north-western Russia. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Kollag) and POW camps.

Jaroslav Martínek

Born in 1900 in Bohemia. Moved to the USSR in 1923 as a teacher to the Czech minority. Arrested in 1927 and imprisoned on the Solovetsky Islands an...

Jiří Bezděk

Left for USSR as Czech teacher in 1927. Arrested in 1930. Deported to Solovetsky Islands and later Siberia. Returned to Czechoslovakia in 1936. Per...

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Murmansk

Jaroslav Martínek

Jiří Bezděk

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