Word: siberias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four, hollow-eyed little Pessel Fachler weighed only 27 pounds. Born in Siberia, to which her Polish parents had fled to escape the Nazis, Pessel had been harried across Europe with her mother and grandmothers, ended up at war's end in a Berlin refugee camp. Half-starved and bloated with edema, her puny body had withstood pneumonia, whooping cough, heart disease and tuberculosis...
...time was 4:50 p.m. The 1,200 prisoners had finished supper. In Cell Block No. 6, known as Little Siberia, where Warden Best keeps the toughest 232 of his charges, a guard stepped out on a routine cell check. Suddenly, he was cracked over the head with an iron...
...Madam," said a male ghost, rising on tiptoe to speak over his wife's shoulder (he also had a bullet hole in his forehead), "I am Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Kiev, Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan, of Poland, Siberia and Georgia, Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Podolia and Finland, Prince of Estonia, Livonia and Bialystok, Lord of Pskov, Riazan, Yaroslavl, Vitebsk and All the Region of the North, Lord...
Last week, 2½ years after World War II, more than 2,500,000 prisoners were still in custody. From the icy steppes of Siberia to the foggy downs of England, the P.O.W. was laboring in the fields, mines and industry. The victorious powers (with the exception of the U.S.) were in no hurry to send them home; for the P.O.W. had become a major economic asset to his captors...
...Konstantinovich Roerich, an egg-bald Russian with a twin-pronged beard, spent a lifetime seeking peace and, somehow, disturbing everything he touched. Devoted followers thought he was a genius who could unify humanity through art. Loudmouthed Westbrook Pegler thought he was a quack who wanted to become "head" of Siberia...