Camp "20th Quartal" (Dwadtzaty Quartal) : as I remember it / by Morton K'necht. [Internet resource] (ID: 32688)
Authorship or Source:
K'necht, Morton.
Year:
1999
Title or Main Description:
Camp "20th Quartal" (Dwadtzaty Quartal) : as I remember it / by Morton K'necht. [Internet resource]
Place Published or Holding Institution:
Toronto, Canada : The Author
Description:
- 24 leaves : ill., plans., maps. ; 28 cm.
- Number of Names or Other Entries-- Approx. 130 names.
Type of Work:
- Typescript
- Available online in PDF format at http://www.knecht.ca/history/Camp-20th-quartal.pdf.
Alternate or Series Title:
- Sentenced for life to live in Camp "20th Quartal."
- As I remember it.
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
Survivors Registry Collection: Document File EE3097
Keywords:
- Jews, Polish --Soviet Union --Registers.
- Refugees, Jewish --Soviet Union --Registers.
- 20th Quartal (Prison camp) --Registers.
- Jews --Russia --Uzhla --Registers.
- Jews --Russia --Birsk --Registers.
- Jews --Poland --Bialystok --Emigration and immigration --Registers.
- Holocaust survivors --Registers.
- K'necht, Morton.
- Knecht Family.
Abstract:
- Personal narrative of the author's incarceration and deportation along with hundreds of other Jewish refugees from German-occupied western Poland picked up in 1940 Soviet-occupied Bialystok and sent to the '20th Quartal' Soviet forced labor camp and later to the town of Birsk. The '20th Quartal' (Russian: 'Dvadtsati Kvartal') camp was located near the town of Uzhla in Anienskiy Most, Kobzhinckiy Raion, Bologodskiy Oblast, Russia.
- Part of the online 'Knecht Family History Page' found at http://www.knecht.ca/history/.
Language and Other Notes:
- Contains list of inmates of '20 Quartal' (p. 18-20) and of former inmates of the camp later settled in the city of Birsk (p. 21).
- "October 1999"--T.p.
- "Sentenced for life to live in Camp "20th Quartal" : As I remember it ; By: Morton Knecht. October 1999"--T.p.
- Available online in PDF format at http://www.knecht.ca/history/Camp-20th-quartal.pdf.
- Last Accessed Online: 17 November 2003.
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