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| + | '''Avraham Shifrin''' was a Soviet-born human rights activist, Zionist, author, lawyer, and Israeli politician who spent a decade in Soviet prisons for allegedly spying for the US and Israel.<ref>https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=djft3U1LymYC&dat=19740523&printsec=frontpage&hl=en</ref> Avraham Shifrin was one of the world’s top authorities on the Soviet system of prisons and slave labor camps.<ref name="NYT">https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40713FF3A550C708DDDAB0994DF484D81</ref><ref name="Enemy of the Gulag">http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/15039-enemy-of-the-gulag</ref> Shifrin's testimonies before Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate and other congressional committee (House Banking and Currency Committee, 1973), provided the world with the major listing of Soviet slave labor camps.<ref>U.S.S.R. Labor Camps (testimony of Avraham "Avram" Shifrin), Parts 1-3, Feb. 1-3, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee 1973</ref> Avraham Shifrin was married to the [[Israeli]] politician [[Eleonora Shifrin]]. | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
| − | Avraham Shifrin was born on October 8, 1923, in | + | Avraham Shifrin was born on October 8, 1923, in Minsk, [[USSR]] (modern [[Belarus]]) into a Jewish family. His father, Isaak Shifrin, was arrested in [[1937]], sentenced under false charges to ten years of corrective labor in Kolyma.<ref>http://www.sakharov-center.ru/asfcd/auth/?t=author&i=845</ref> During World War II, Avraham Shifrin fought in [[Shtrafbat]], Soviet penal battalion, where he was drafted as a son of the [[Enemy of the people]] (Russian language: сын врага народа, "syn vraga naroda").<ref>Soviet Russia Inside Out. John F. McManus interviews Mr. and Mrs. Avraham Shifrin, The John Birch Society/Liberty News Network</ref> Within days, ninety percent of his unit was dead or wounded and Shifrin had been wounded twice.<ref name="Enemy of the Gulag"/> Participated in the [[Battle of Königsberg]], was awarded the Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg".<ref>Четвертое измерение, publisher: Франкфурт/Майн : Посев, 1973</ref> As a lawyer, in 1949–1953, he worked for the [[Soviet Ministry of Defense]] and at the same time actively participated in the Zionist movement.<ref name="Воспоминания о ГУЛАГе и их авторы">Воспоминания о ГУЛАГе и их авторы, publisher: sakharov-center.ru</ref> In 1953 was falsely accused in spying for the US and Israel and sentenced to death. Later, the death sentence was changed to twenty five years in [[Gulag]], five years of exile to remote regions, and five years of revoking civil rights.<ref name="Воспоминания о ГУЛАГе и их авторы"/> In 1963 Shifrin was released from prison; in [[1970]] repatriated to [[Israel]]. Shifrin testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary in 1973 that American prisoners of war were being held in Soviet prison camps.<ref name="Hartford Courant">http://articles.courant.com/1992-12-06/news/0000107350_1_laos-prisoners-pows-in-soviet-union</ref> According to [[Arnold Beizer]], a Hartford lawyer, the testimony was corroborated by Russian President [[Boris Yeltsin]] in 1992, who said American soldiers had been transferred to Russian labor camps.<ref name="Hartford Courant"/> |
==Russian Gulag on Wrangell Island== | ==Russian Gulag on Wrangell Island== | ||
| − | According to Avraham Shifrin's research, massive Russian Gulag concentration camp has been found on the Russian | + | According to Avraham Shifrin's research, massive Russian Gulag concentration camp has been found on the Russian Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean (71° North, 179° West).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150407033421/http://www.statedepartmentwatch.org/GulagWrangell.htm</ref> The camps on Wrangell were revealed in the [[1982]] book "The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration Camps of the Soviet Union," by Avraham Shifrin (Bantam Books).<ref name="Bantam Books">The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration Camps of the Soviet Union by Avraham Shifrin, Bantam Books 1982</ref> His research institute interviewed hundreds of escapees from Soviet gulags. In his [[1973]] testimony before the U. S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Shifrin described three concentration camps with thousands of prisoners, and in one camp was an atomic reactor used in radiation experiments on live prisoners.<ref>USSR Labor Camps Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Living Sacrifice Book Co 1983</ref> American prisoners of war may have been on Wrangell. The Russians are reputed to have taken American and other military prisoners from World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to Siberian slave labor camps. Even the famed World War II hero [[Raoul Wallenberg]] (who was declared an honorary U. S. citizen along with Winston Churchill) was seen in a camp on Wrangell Island in 1962, according to testimony of imprisoned Soviet [[SMERSH]] officer [[Efim Moshinskiy]] in Shifrin’s book<ref name="Bantam Books"/> |
==Korean Air Lines Flight 007 alternative theory== | ==Korean Air Lines Flight 007 alternative theory== | ||
| − | Avraham Shifrin claimed that according to the investigation of his Research Centre for Prisons, Psychprisons and Forced Labor Concentration Camps of the USSR,<ref> | + | Avraham Shifrin claimed that according to the investigation of his Research Centre for Prisons, Psychprisons and Forced Labor Concentration Camps of the USSR,<ref>http://www.rescue007.org/where_are_they_now.htm</ref> [[KAL 007]] landed on water north of [[Moneron Island]], and the passengers successfully disembarked on emergency floats. The Soviets collected them and subsequently sent them to camps with the children "separated from their parents and safely hidden in the orphan houses of one of the Soviet Middle Asian republics<ref name="Shifrin1">http://www.rescue007.org/docs/ShifrinPressRelease1991-07-11.pdf</ref>". |
| − | + | According to [[Michel Brun]] this theory is not entirely preposterous. In his book he analyses the first news, communicated by [[CIA]] and South Korean government: that KAL 007 landed in Sakalin and all passengers are safe. In his searches, he discovered the source of this first information. It was published in a Japanese newspaper: ''Mainichi Shinboun'' September 1, 1983.<ref>Michel Brun,''Incident at Sakhline...'' p. 20</ref> According to him, the observation came from Wakkanai radars. This opens the possibility that another aircraft, probably military, landed at Sakhalin during the "Sakhalin battle" and that the passengers, American and/or South Korean, were jailed in the Soviet Union. | |
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*[https://books.google.com/books?id=62b8RTYriB0C&pg=PA554&lpg=PA554&dq=senate+subcommittee+judiciary+avraham+shifrin&source=bl&ots=eZJXvBZu0q&sig=1ROiPq0lN6jGJVDovVxzMu6Iaf0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vo81VeW8KvWLsQTUqYCoBA&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAw Human Cost of Communism] (delivered during a panel of the 7th Annual Conference of the World Anti-Communist League, April 8–11, 1974, Washington, D.C. Case Studies on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Volume Two: A World Survey, edited by Willem Adriaan Veenhoven. 1975- Political Science.) | *[https://books.google.com/books?id=62b8RTYriB0C&pg=PA554&lpg=PA554&dq=senate+subcommittee+judiciary+avraham+shifrin&source=bl&ots=eZJXvBZu0q&sig=1ROiPq0lN6jGJVDovVxzMu6Iaf0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vo81VeW8KvWLsQTUqYCoBA&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAw Human Cost of Communism] (delivered during a panel of the 7th Annual Conference of the World Anti-Communist League, April 8–11, 1974, Washington, D.C. Case Studies on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Volume Two: A World Survey, edited by Willem Adriaan Veenhoven. 1975- Political Science.) | ||
*The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration Camps of the Soviet Union by Avraham Shifrin. (Published by Bantam Books, Paperback, 1982, 400 p. Language: English, {{ISBN|978-0553013924}}) | *The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration Camps of the Soviet Union by Avraham Shifrin. (Published by Bantam Books, Paperback, 1982, 400 p. Language: English, {{ISBN|978-0553013924}}) | ||
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* [http://www.rescue007.org/where_are_they_now.htm Where Are They Now?] The International Committee for the Rescue of KAL 007 Survivors, Inc. February 14, 2002 | * [http://www.rescue007.org/where_are_they_now.htm Where Are They Now?] The International Committee for the Rescue of KAL 007 Survivors, Inc. February 14, 2002 | ||
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Latest revision as of 02:20, 27 March 2021
This is an import from the Wikipedia article as it appeared 27 March 2021.
 Avraham Shifrin    (human rights activist, author, lawyer) | |
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| Born | October 8, 1923 |
| Died | March 5, 1998 (Age 74) |
Avraham Shifrin was a Soviet-born human rights activist, Zionist, author, lawyer, and Israeli politician who spent a decade in Soviet prisons for allegedly spying for the US and Israel.[1] Avraham Shifrin was one of the world’s top authorities on the Soviet system of prisons and slave labor camps.[2][3] Shifrin's testimonies before Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate and other congressional committee (House Banking and Currency Committee, 1973), provided the world with the major listing of Soviet slave labor camps.[4] Avraham Shifrin was married to the Israeli politician Eleonora Shifrin.
Contents
Biography
Avraham Shifrin was born on October 8, 1923, in Minsk, USSR (modern Belarus) into a Jewish family. His father, Isaak Shifrin, was arrested in 1937, sentenced under false charges to ten years of corrective labor in Kolyma.[5] During World War II, Avraham Shifrin fought in Shtrafbat, Soviet penal battalion, where he was drafted as a son of the Enemy of the people (Russian language: сын врага народа, "syn vraga naroda").[6] Within days, ninety percent of his unit was dead or wounded and Shifrin had been wounded twice.[3] Participated in the Battle of Königsberg, was awarded the Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg".[7] As a lawyer, in 1949–1953, he worked for the Soviet Ministry of Defense and at the same time actively participated in the Zionist movement.[8] In 1953 was falsely accused in spying for the US and Israel and sentenced to death. Later, the death sentence was changed to twenty five years in Gulag, five years of exile to remote regions, and five years of revoking civil rights.[8] In 1963 Shifrin was released from prison; in 1970 repatriated to Israel. Shifrin testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary in 1973 that American prisoners of war were being held in Soviet prison camps.[9] According to Arnold Beizer, a Hartford lawyer, the testimony was corroborated by Russian President Boris Yeltsin in 1992, who said American soldiers had been transferred to Russian labor camps.[9]
Russian Gulag on Wrangell Island
According to Avraham Shifrin's research, massive Russian Gulag concentration camp has been found on the Russian Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean (71° North, 179° West).[10] The camps on Wrangell were revealed in the 1982 book "The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration Camps of the Soviet Union," by Avraham Shifrin (Bantam Books).[11] His research institute interviewed hundreds of escapees from Soviet gulags. In his 1973 testimony before the U. S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Shifrin described three concentration camps with thousands of prisoners, and in one camp was an atomic reactor used in radiation experiments on live prisoners.[12] American prisoners of war may have been on Wrangell. The Russians are reputed to have taken American and other military prisoners from World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to Siberian slave labor camps. Even the famed World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg (who was declared an honorary U. S. citizen along with Winston Churchill) was seen in a camp on Wrangell Island in 1962, according to testimony of imprisoned Soviet SMERSH officer Efim Moshinskiy in Shifrin’s book[11]
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 alternative theory
Avraham Shifrin claimed that according to the investigation of his Research Centre for Prisons, Psychprisons and Forced Labor Concentration Camps of the USSR,[13] KAL 007 landed on water north of Moneron Island, and the passengers successfully disembarked on emergency floats. The Soviets collected them and subsequently sent them to camps with the children "separated from their parents and safely hidden in the orphan houses of one of the Soviet Middle Asian republics[14]".
According to Michel Brun this theory is not entirely preposterous. In his book he analyses the first news, communicated by CIA and South Korean government: that KAL 007 landed in Sakalin and all passengers are safe. In his searches, he discovered the source of this first information. It was published in a Japanese newspaper: Mainichi Shinboun September 1, 1983.[15] According to him, the observation came from Wakkanai radars. This opens the possibility that another aircraft, probably military, landed at Sakhalin during the "Sakhalin battle" and that the passengers, American and/or South Korean, were jailed in the Soviet Union.
References
- ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=djft3U1LymYC&dat=19740523&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
- ↑ https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40713FF3A550C708DDDAB0994DF484D81
- ↑ a b http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/15039-enemy-of-the-gulag
- ↑ U.S.S.R. Labor Camps (testimony of Avraham "Avram" Shifrin), Parts 1-3, Feb. 1-3, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee 1973
- ↑ http://www.sakharov-center.ru/asfcd/auth/?t=author&i=845
- ↑ Soviet Russia Inside Out. John F. McManus interviews Mr. and Mrs. Avraham Shifrin, The John Birch Society/Liberty News Network
- ↑ Четвертое измерение, publisher: Франкфурт/Майн : Посев, 1973
- ↑ a b Воспоминания о ГУЛАГе и их авторы, publisher: sakharov-center.ru
- ↑ a b http://articles.courant.com/1992-12-06/news/0000107350_1_laos-prisoners-pows-in-soviet-union
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150407033421/http://www.statedepartmentwatch.org/GulagWrangell.htm
- ↑ a b The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration Camps of the Soviet Union by Avraham Shifrin, Bantam Books 1982
- ↑ USSR Labor Camps Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Living Sacrifice Book Co 1983
- ↑ http://www.rescue007.org/where_are_they_now.htm
- ↑ http://www.rescue007.org/docs/ShifrinPressRelease1991-07-11.pdf
- ↑ Michel Brun,Incident at Sakhline... p. 20
Bibliography
- The fourth dimension ("Четвертое измерение", Frankfurt/Main, Posev, 1973, 452 p.)
- USSR Labor Camps. Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of by Avrrham Shifrin. (Published by Living Sacrifice Book Co. Paperback, 1983, 282 p. ISBN 978-0-88264-159-1)
- Human Cost of Communism (delivered during a panel of the 7th Annual Conference of the World Anti-Communist League, April 8–11, 1974, Washington, D.C. Case Studies on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Volume Two: A World Survey, edited by Willem Adriaan Veenhoven. 1975- Political Science.)
- The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration Camps of the Soviet Union by Avraham Shifrin. (Published by Bantam Books, Paperback, 1982, 400 p. Language: English, ISBN 978-0553013924)
External links
- Enemy of the Gulag The New American. June 8, 1998
- Шифрин Авраам Исаакович Воспоминания о ГУЛАГе и их авторы
- Четвертое измерение Франкфурт/Майн : Посев, 1973. – 452 с.
- Soviet Russia Inside Out. John F. McManus interviews Mr. and Mrs. Avraham Shifrin. The John Birch Society/Liberty News Network.
- Russian Gulag Found On American Wrangell Island State Department Watch
- Where Are They Now? The International Committee for the Rescue of KAL 007 Survivors, Inc. February 14, 2002
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