Notes, Jews in the USSR, 1917-2000
Survivors
in Auschwitz from all over, but not from SU. SU citizens also spread out over. Some
Js survived as partisans, some forged identities as Christians.
Major redist in J demo. W lands now emptied, in major cities, Moscow, Leningrad,
Rostov, Donetsk, or much further to E, either never occupied or briefly occupied.
Ashkenazis where no or few Js were living before, or where Sephardic. Now 10s of
1000s in Tashken, Tajikistan, Bishkek (Frunzen) Dushanbei (Lanenobad), Tabilsi. Also
Samara (Kuibishev). Hundreds of thousands. SU hadn't been keeping recs of
evacuation. Travel docs, but no central recs.
Censuses, 1939 and 1959. Majority of Js who evacuated went back to former home
repubs. Didn't go back to shtetl, in ruins or occupied by others. Went to nearby
cities. J comm in Uzbekistan grew 80%. Small families in comm prior to. 51,000 Js,
Bukharins, now 95,000 in 1959. Same growth in almost every SU area of Central
Asia and Caucasus, doubling local pop. Who are these
annaabi.ee 
