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Vorkuta

Ján Bačkovský

Born on 24 October 1919 in Štefurov near Bardejov. In 1939 he decided to escape to the USSR and left home at the end of November that year.

Leonid Levko Dohovich

Born in 1935, for political protests he was sentenced to ten years in the Gulag in 1950 at the age of 14. After attempting to escape, he was senten...

Roland Bude

A Czech German arrested in 1950 for his political involvement with the Stasi and handed over to the NKVD. He was sentenced to 25 years and deported...

The Vorkuta Uprising: "Human blood flowed down the ditches"

In July 1953, one of the largest uprisings in the Gulag broke out in Vorkuta "When I ran to the guardhouse, I froze in terror. There was a mo...