The anti-Zionist communist Jew who wanted to hear ‘Hatikvah’ in the Gulag

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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


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