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Manuscript memoirs of Boris Berin-Bei entitled "Zapiski sovetskogo kontslagernika" (143 p.). The memoirs concern his experiences in Soviet concentration camps in 1945-1956.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Boris Berin-Bei Memoirs; Box and Folder (if known); Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.
Boris Vladimirovich B'erkelund Memoirs
Memoirs: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1970.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Memoirs Accessioned 1970.
Memoirs Processed 09/--/79.
Formerly part of Bakhmeteff (BAR) General Ms Collection with Coll No. BAR Gen Ms Coll/Berin-Bei.
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Boris Borisovich Berin-Bei (Popper), (1904—2000), born in St. Petersburg, after the revolution he moved to Finland with his family; in 1928-1938 studied and worked in Belgium; returned to Suomi, volunteered in the Winter War, in 1941-1943 served as a translator in the Finnish army. In 1945 became one of the twenty "prisoners of Leino". The Allied Control Commission accused this group of 22 men of being anti-Soviet terrorists. The Commission ordered the then Minister of the Interior, Yrjö Leino, to arrange for their arrest and extradition to the Soviet Union. Two members of the group managed to avoid arrest. More than half of the detainees were Finnish citizens. Berin-Bei (Popper) was arrested and spent 11 years in Soviet prison camps. In 1956 returned to Finland.
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