Eran Wolkowski
In the book ‘White Nights,’ my father, Menachem Begin, described his friendship with Mikhail Garin, an ailing Jew and ardent communist with whom he shared a bunk in a Soviet Gulag in 1941. Garin was thought to have disappeared, like millions of other victims in those forced-labor camps. Then, a few months ago, out of the blue, contact was made with Garin’s grandson
By Oct 22, 2021
The Jewish housewife who became a Soviet nuclear super-spy
In the spring of 1941, at the foot of the Ural Mountains, on the banks of the Pechora River, not far from the Arctic Circle, in one of many Soviet Gulags, two Jewish political prisoners met: a communist named…