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Vladivostok

Far East port city. At various periods it was home to the administrations of several correctional labour camps (Vladlag) and POW camps. The city also housed a placement centre for prisoners on their way to Magadan camps in Kolyma.

Václav Djačuk

Born in Czechoslovakia in 1920. Arrested entering the USSR in July 1940. Sentenced to three years in the Gulag in Kolyma. Released in 1943.

Irena Kawaschová

In March 1945 she was arrested and taken by Soviet soldiers to Kolyma, where her son Ján was born in the Gulag. After 1953 she returned to Slovakia...

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Vladivostok

Václav Djačuk

Irena Kawaschová

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