
By Jacob J. Neufeld,Harvey L. Dyck,Sarah Dyck
ISBN-10: 144261420X
ISBN-13: 9781442614208
ISBN-10: 1442646098
ISBN-13: 9781442646094
Under Bolshevik and Nazi rule, approximately one-third of all Soviet Mennonites – together with greater than 1/2 all grownup males – perished, whereas a mess have been exiled to the east and the north through the Soviet mystery police (NKVD). Others fled westward on lengthy treks, looking safe haven in Germany through the moment global struggle. even if, at war’s finish, nearly all of the USSR refugees dwelling in Germany have been despatched to the Soviet Gulag, the place many died.
Paths of Thorns is the tale of Jacob Abramovich Neufeld (1895–1960), a fashionable Soviet Mennonite chief and author, in addition to this sort of Mennonites despatched to the Gulag. which include 3 elements – a Gulag memoir, a memoir-history, and a protracted letter from Neufeld to his spouse – this quantity mirrors the lifestyles and anguish of Neufeld’s new release of Soviet Mennonites. within the phrases of editor and translator Harvey L. Dyck, “Neufeld’s writings increase an easy tale of terror and survival right into a awesome chronicle and research of the cataclysm that swept away his small yet major ethno-religious community.”