From: mmarkish@FEDS46.PRIME.COM (Mark Markish x2799)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: attn: Russian MIA relatives
Date: 4 Jan 93 21:10:12 GMT
Reply-To: "soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" <SCS-L@indycms.iupui.edu>

The following message comes from the ISHR/USA,
P.O. Box 90, Toms River, NJ 08754

It is intended mostly for the relatives of the WWII Russian MIA, and thus
I post it in Russian. A brief English summary is attached below. Please
make it known to anyone concerned. - Mark

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         ZHertvy popytki nasil'stvennoi repatriacsii
             russkix voennoplennyx iz SShA
              ===========================

Svedeniia o razstrele v Lienz (Austria) shiroko izvestny.
No malo kto znaet, chto zdes', v New-Jersey, lezhat v
mogilax russkie voennoplennye, o kotoryx v Rossii pishut,
chto oni propali bez vesti. U nix est' deti, vnuki, u
mnogix, mozhet byt', zhivy i zheny. Liudi dolzhny znat' pravdu.

Soderzhaschiesia v Fort Dix, New Jersey, russkie voennoplennye,
uznav, chto ix nasil'stvenno sobiraiutsia otpravit' v SSSR, reshili
bezhat'. 29 iiunia 1945 goda oni popytalis' probit'sia na svobodu.

Polkovnik G.M.Treish prikazal zabrosat' baraki granatami
so slezotochivym gazom. Posle etogo voennoplennye vybezhali iz
barakov i pytalis' prorvat'sia cherez liniiu oxrany, deistvuia
stolovymi nozhami i palkami. Pri etom 9 chelovek bylo ubito
pulemetnym ognem oxrany. Iz chisla oxrany byli raneny lieutenant
Clifton Filand, lieutenant Ira Frider, i riadovoi Dersonich.

V to zhe samoe vremia gruppa voennoplennyx, ne sposobnyx k
pobegu, predpriniala popytku samoubiistva. Povesilis' leitenant
Kalinin, leitenant Nazarenko, riadovoi SHatov, i drugie.

Posle likvidacsii popytki k begstvu gruppa byla perevezena v
lager' Shenks (New York) dlia otpravki v SSSR. V subbotu,
posle 13.00 na prichal 51 v gavani New York stali pribyvat' pervyia
partii russkix plennyx pod usilennoi oxranoi. Na pristani ix
ozhidal dopolnitel'nyi otriad v 300 chelovek soldat.

V 15.30, po raspriazheniiu Voennago Ministerstva, otpravka byla
priostanovlena, i voennoplennyx napravili obratno v Fort Dix.

Istochniki: gazeta "Rossiia" vyp.3163 03/12/45, gazeta
"New York Times", iiun'-iiul' 1945 goda, kniga B.M.Kuznecsova
"V ugodu Stalinu", SBNOR, Kanada, 1968, s.76-77.

Adresa dlia zaprosov:

1. Reception Station U.S.Army, Fort Dix, New Jersey
2. Major General John P.Herrling, Commanding General Fort Dix, New Jersey
3. Public Ahffairs Office Bld, 5513 Texas Ave, Fort Dix, Tel.(609) 562-4634
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             Victims of the forced repatriation attempt
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While the accounts of the massacre of Lienz, Austria has generally been well
known, the following story is all but forgotten. There are Russian MIAs in the
graves right here in New Jersey. Their relatives, and the public, deserve to
know the truth.

On June 29. 1945, having learned about their oncoming deportation to the USSR,
a group of 150 Russian POW in Fort Dix, NJ attempted an escape. Tear gas
grenades proved unsuccessful in quelling the unrest, and the POW charged the
guards with knives and sticks. Nine POWs were killed by the machine gun
fire. Lts. Filand and Frider and pr. Dersonich were injured in the attack.
A group of the POW, unable to participate in the escape attempt, committed
suicide at the same time.

When the order was resored, the group was transferred to another camp, from
where they were sent under heavy guard to Pier 51 in New York for embarking.
The same day, however, an order was received from the DOD to stop the
deportation, and the POWs were returned to Fort Dix.

Sources and addresses - see above.
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