my grandfather was a teenager in the russian czar's white army doing border patrol in 1915 when he told his patrol partner that he thought he heard something and was going to check it out...he kept walking...oddly he wound up in moultrie, georgia where my father was born...that's how a bunch of jews ended up in south georgia in spite of the presence of the ku klux klan whom you may know didn't care too much for jews...between the russian revolution in 1917 and the fall of the soviet union in 1991, some 25 million people were held in the soviet forced labor camp and internal exile system known as gulag...the combination of endemic violence, extreme climate, hard labor, meager food rations, and unsanitary conditions led to extremely high death rates in the camps...
the national park service, in a unique partnership with the gulag museum at perm-36, the international memorial society, and amnesty international usa (aiusa), presents the first exhibition on the belbaltlag - 1932...it comes courtesy of central russian state and photo archive...
the manzanar national historic site and eastern california museum host GULAG: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom, february 17 to october 21, 2007...admission is free...
manzanar is located six miles south of independence californian on u.s. highway 395 and contains exhibits and audio visual programs related to the world war II internment of japanese americans...
you can visit http://www.gulaghistory.org/ to take a virtual tour of the exhibit, learn more about the gulag experience, and follow the traveling exhibit of a soviet gulag in the united states...
for more information please the museum at: 760-878-0258 and please visit for easy access to information on directions, lodging, and dining; as well as extensive information on this stirring exhibit...
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