Background
Margolin, Iulii was born in 1900. Son of a doctor.
Margolin, Iulii was born in 1900. Son of a doctor.
Graduated from Berlin University.
Grew up in Ekaterinoslav and Pinsk. After World War I, lived in Lodz in Poland, wrote in Polish, Russian and Hebrew. Emigrated to Palestine, 1936.
Returned to Poland just before World War II. Moved from Lodz to Pinsk (in East Poland) in order to escape the German occupation. Remained there under the Soviet occupation. Arrested, June 1940, during mass arrests of refugees from West Poland by the NK.VD, and sentenced to 5 years in the concentration camps for living on Soviet territory without a Soviet passport.
Excluded from the amnesty for Polish citizens during World War II after the German attack on the Soviet
Union. Having served fully his sentence, exiled to Altai, June 1945. Later repatriated to Poland, and emigrated to Israel.
Settled in Tel Aviv. Wrote a celebrated book about his experiences in the Soviet camps (Puteshestvie v Stranu Ze-Ka), one of the best pre-Solzhenitsyn accounts of the Gulag.