Word: novosibersk
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...Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. His Russian captors gave him surprising liberties, which included catching malaria and typhoid fever with only the help of a broken down Czech dentist to pull him through. For two years after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was imprisoned in the Siberian cities of Novosibersk and two other unpronounceable locations. Kohn, who just before the war had completed law school in Prague, acquired his first teaching experience in these cities. Among the 10,000 prisoners was a large number of university professors and college students who organized a miniature university within the prison walls. Kohn...
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