Word: gliksman
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With El Campesino in the Paris courtroom was one of the largest collections of Soviet slave-camp alumni ever assembled Russians, Germans, Poles, Jews, Spaniards, and Balts. They included Jerzy Gliksman, brother of the Polish Socialist Victor Alter, who was executed by the NKVD in 1941; Margarete Buber-Neumann, author of Under Two Dictators (TIME, Jan. 15), whom the Bolsheviks jailed in Russia in 1938, then turned over to the Nazis in 1940; Julius Margolin, Tel Aviv philosophy student who traveled to France to tell the court about his six years in Soviet durance...
...Gliksman was one of those Socialists who had thought that the Stalin regime would welcome non-Communist radicals. When he was arrested he tried to convince the NKVD it was making a mistake. The mistake, as others have discovered before & since...
When Jerzy Gliksman, a Polish Socialist, was about to be released, in 1941, from the Siberian forced labor camp in which he had been held for a year, he asked a fellow prisoner if he could help...
...next day Gliksman repeated these words to another slave laborer, Professor Strovsky, an aging Russian scholar. Strovsky, with the fatalism of those who have suffered too much, doubted if telling the West would help much: "They won't want to believe you anyway...
...standard of morality by which large sections of the Western world, especially its intellectuals, have judged the Stalin dictatorship. Many of the same people who, in the 1930s, had been stirred by reports of Nazi concentration camps, refused to face the unpleasant fact that Russia used them too. Now Gliksman, who found himself in a Siberian labor camp after Poland was carved up by Hitler and Stalin, tells the story of that experience with a better chance of attention. The book is an unadorned record of human suffering devoid of literary flourish...