Word: dzhezkazgan
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Dates: during 1975-1975
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...Dzhezkazgan camp, where he met a wagonload of corpses coming out as he went in, Dolgun was originally sent to the killing rock quarries, but he soon got himself assigned to easier jobs as a welder and, best of all, as a hospital assistant. Before he was through he had amputated a patient's toes and one leg and performed an appendectomy. He even managed to fall in love. The girl committed suicide in 1956 just as political prisoners began to be released...
...Stalin's prisons and camps, Alexander Dolgun, who now lives in Maryland. A former U.S. embassy clerk who was kidnaped by the Soviet secret police in 1948 and freed only in 1956, Dolgun spent years in the same vast concentration camp as Zoya. "She ended up in Dzhezkazgan, a hard-labor camp for political prisoners in Central Asia," Dolgun told TIME last week. "The women did the same killing work as the men, on heavy construction jobs and in the copper mines. The prisoners all knew Zoya's movies, and it was a shock when we heard that...
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