Ravich Slavomir
1. Letter from Ravich S. dated 26.06.1995 to the director of the St. Petersburg Research Center "Memorial" Iofe V.V. with a list of fellow prisoners who escaped with him on 13.04.1941 from imprisonment in Yakutia, and about his consent to the translation of his book "The Long Walk" into Russian; in English. (2 p., typewritten)
2. Copy of the letter from the St. Petersburg Research Center "Memorial", no. d., to the Information Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Yakutia-Sakha with a request for documents attesting to the escape from the camp on 13.04.1941 of seven foreign prisoners, including Ravich S. (1 page, photocopy)
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Ravich Slavomir (Rusecki-Ravich Slavomir)
Born September 1, 1915 in Pinsk; citizen of Poland. Before his arrest, he was in the ranks of the Polish army, as a private or junior officer. He was arrested in 1939 as a prisoner of war. He was released four months later. In April 1940, he was arrested again, accused of murdering an NKVD officer. He was sentenced to a prison camp term. In early 1942, he was released from prison in Krasnoyarsk under an amnesty for Polish citizens. He joined the Second Corps of the Polish Army. In the 1950s, he authored a book about Stalin's camps, "The Long Walk" (1956; Swedish translation: "Lång väg till frihet", 1956; reprinted: Rawicz S. Flykten från Stalins läger. Lund, 2005), in which he passed off fiction as real events. Died on 05.04.2004 in the UK.
Documents (1)
2. Copy of the letter from the St. Petersburg Research Center "Memorial", no. d., to the Information Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Yakutia-Sakha with a request for documents attesting to the escape from the camp on 13.04.1941 of seven foreign prisoners, including Ravich S.
