Vorkuta to Perm: Russia's Concentration-Camp Museums and My Father's Story From: Freeman | Date: July 1, 2005| Author: Utley, Jon Basil | Copyright Foundation for Economic Education, Incorporated Jul/Aug 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

My father, Arcadi Berdichevsky, was executed at Vorkuta on the Arctic Circle in the Soviet Union on March 30, 1938. Last October I visited the former concentration-camp town. Copies of files detailing his arrest, indictment, and execution order were sent to me by the FSB, successor to Russia's notorious KGB (formerly OGPU secret police). Incredibly, it still has detailed records of political prisoners and willingly provides information and help to searchers like me. It also gave me three phot...

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