Cover
 Introduction
 Time Line
 Early Years: To 1939
 Outbreak of War: 1939
 In the Russian Zone: 1939-1940
 In the Taiga: 1940-1941
 Bodaybo: 1941 - 1943
 The Way Back: 1944-1945
 An Adventure:1945
 Semipalatinsk:1945-1946
 Repatriation: 1946
 Germany: 1946-1951
 Notes
 Notes 2
 Family Tree
 Trip to Siberia 2008
 Readers´ Comments
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Time Line



September 9, 1908.

Tsivye Ringel born in Radymno

March 28, 1909.

Mechel Beck born in Dubiecko.

August 1914.

Outbreak of World War I. Ringel family flees to Bohemia.

1917.

Ringel family returns to Poland and settles in Lezajsk.

November 7, 1917.

Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.

November 1918.

End of World War I.

1919 – 1921.

Polish – Soviet War.

1933.

Hitler comes to power in Germany.

1935.

Tsivye Ringel and Mechel Beck marry and settle in Dubiecko.

September 12 or.

Tsili (Celia) Beck born.

August 23, 1939.

Ribbentrop – Molotov pact signed.

September 1, 1939.

 Germany invades Poland from north, south and west.

September 10, 1939.

German Army in Dubiecko.

September 17, 1939.

SS pogrom in Dubiecko; Soviet Union invades Poland from east.

September 26, 1939.

Dubiecko Jews are expelled to Soviet Zone.

November 15, 1939.

USSR annexes captured territories, incorporating them into the Ukrainian SSR.

June 30, 1940.

Deportation of Jewish refugees from Western Ukraine; Becks sent on transport to Siberia.

August 13, 1940.

Becks arrive in Sinyuga, near Bodaybo, Irkutsk Oblast.

June 22, 1941.

Germany invades Soviet Union.

July 30, 1941.

Polish – Soviet agreement which grants amnesty to Polish refugees in the Soviet interior.

October 5, 1941.

Becks leave work camp in taiga, arrive in Bodaybo.

January 20, 1942.

Wannsee Conference, where administrative arrangments for Nazi “Final Solution to the Jewish Problem” are discussed.

April 26, 1943.

Stalin breaks relations with Sikorski’s Government, appoints a Communist replacement.

September 1943.

Aryeh Leib Beck dies.

April 1944.

Becks leave Bodaybo, arrive in Balagansk, Irkutsk Oblast.

November 1944

Mechel Beck fugitive, travels twice between Irkutsk and Dzhambul, Kazakhstan.

March 1945.

Becks reunited in Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk Oblast.

May 9, 1945.

Germany capitulates to the Soviet Union.

May 1945.

Becks in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

May 4, 1946.

Becks are repatriated to Poland, travel to Stettin.

July 4, 1946.

Pogrom in Kielce.

August 1946.

Becks smuggle into Berlin, Germany.

February 1947.

Becks in Munich, Germany.

July 9, 1947.

Betty Beck (Hebrew: Beila, after maternal grandmother) born.

May 14, 1948.

State of Israel is founded.

July 11, 1949.

Louis Beck (Hebrew: Itschok Aryeh, after paternal grandfather) born.

July 1951.

Becks immigrate to US.

1971.

Becks immigrate to Israel.

1998.

Tsivye dies in Jerusalem.

2006.

Mechel dies in Jeruslaem.

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