Slave camp possessions, saved by Maria Jacobi, 1952.
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When she was released from Soviet custody, Maria Jacobi carried her only possessions in a canvas sack that she has sewn together herself. Her family saved the bag and its contents, and the items eventually came into David Jacobi's protection.
This file appears in: Gulags
Gulags
"And eventually [my grandmother] was released from imprisonment but moved to work camps—several camps over time along the Black Sea in, I believe, Turkmenistan, eventually ending up in Spassk . And that was the last camp that I can recall that she…