[Salo Weisselberger, Russian captivity 1914-1915]

[Salo Weisselberger, Russian captivity 1914-1915] 

[Salo Weisselberger, Russian captivity 1914-1915] 

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The file is the typewritten account of the tribulation of the Mayor of Czernowitz, Salo Weisselberger, who was deported by the Russian occupation troops as a hostage to Siberia in 1914. The report describes the ordeal of the transport to Siberia, and his imprisonment at various places of the Russian empire until his return after a hostage exchange in November 1915.