Comments on: Vorkuta to Perm: Russia’s Concentration-Camp Museums and My Father’s Story http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/vorkuta-to-perm-russias-concentration-camp-museums-and-my-fathers-story/ Ideas on Liberty Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:40:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Jaroslaw Martyniuk http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/vorkuta-to-perm-russias-concentration-camp-museums-and-my-fathers-story/comment-page-1/#comment-42326 Jaroslaw Martyniuk Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:14:24 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/vorkuta-to-perm-russias-concentration-camp-museums-and-my-fathers-story/#comment-42326 Dear Jon Basil Utley, I came across your piece by chance while searching for background material about my family's experiences in the gulag. My grandmother died somewhere in Komi. My uncle survived Kolyma, met his wife in Magadan. Her parents ended yp Vorkuta from where they managed to escape on a militaty train. Eventually they ended up back in Ukraine (Volyn) where the father Ivan died soon thereafter. Eventually the NKVD caught up with the mother Maria, rearrested her her and sent back to Vorkuta. I learned all this from my cousins, sons of my uncle Feodozij, who raised a family in Kazakhstan and whom I'm met once in Crimea in the mid-90s. But, as you know, things were not quite that simple and straightforward, and based on bits and pieces Im trying to reconstuct their story. In any event, I enjoyed your piece about your father and this note is in way of introduction and to say that I would like to stay in touch to possibly exchange views and information. Sincerely, Jaroslaw Martyniuk Dear Jon Basil Utley,
I came across your piece by chance while searching for background material about my family’s experiences in the gulag. My grandmother died somewhere in Komi. My uncle survived Kolyma, met his wife in Magadan. Her parents ended yp Vorkuta from where they managed to escape on a militaty train. Eventually they ended up back in Ukraine (Volyn) where the father Ivan died soon thereafter. Eventually the NKVD caught up with the mother Maria, rearrested her her and sent back to Vorkuta. I learned all this from my cousins, sons of my uncle Feodozij, who raised a family in Kazakhstan and whom I’m met once in Crimea in the mid-90s. But, as you know, things were not quite that simple and straightforward, and based on bits and pieces Im trying to reconstuct their story.

In any event, I enjoyed your piece about your father and this note is in way of introduction and to say that I would like to stay in touch to possibly exchange views and information.

Sincerely,
Jaroslaw Martyniuk

]]> By: Mike http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/vorkuta-to-perm-russias-concentration-camp-museums-and-my-fathers-story/comment-page-1/#comment-35883 Mike Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:25:59 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/vorkuta-to-perm-russias-concentration-camp-museums-and-my-fathers-story/#comment-35883 Wow, my grandfather was a prisoner of Vorkuta for 6 years until he escaped. His story is unbelievable and I want to get any info on him as you did for your father. Contact me please. Wow, my grandfather was a prisoner of Vorkuta for 6 years until he escaped. His story is unbelievable and I want to get any info on him as you did for your father. Contact me please.

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