Deciding life or death: Polish Jews and the wartime Soviet Union dilemma
Become modified Soviet citizens (which effectively required them to leave the area) or retain Polish citizenship and return to the territory controlled by Germany?
THE SOLOVETSKY Monastery in northern Russia is known as the ‘mother of the Gulag,’ having been converted into a Soviet prison and labor camp and used as a model for other such camps during the Stalin era(photo credit: CONOR SWEENEY/REUTERS)By GLENN C. ALTSCHULER
