Stalin deportations - and the Big Flight from Barbarossa

Some data from some articles in the Encyclopaedia Judaica 1971

from Michael Palomino (2007)

14. Uzbekistan

from: Uzbekistan; In: Encyclopaedia Judaica 1971, Vol. 16

[1939-1944: Jewish refugees develop Uzbekistan as a Jewish center]

<World War II, however, suddenly converted Uzbekistan into an important Jewish center. The Jews of western and central European U.S.S.R. found refuge there, and Tashkent accommodated some of the Jewish institutions of Moscow. Many Jews who had been deported by the Soviet regime between 1939 and 1941 from the annexed eastern parts of Poland and the Baltic states to labor camps or exile in Siberia because of "bourgeois" class origin or political affiliations (Zionists or socialists) also migrated to Uzbekistan upon their release from the camp or place of exile. Some succeeded in continuing on to Palestine through *Persia, either as Polish soldiers in General Anders' army or as orphaned children (the so-called Tehran children).> (col. 40)

[1944-1946: Jews going back to Eastern Europe - many are staying and settling in Uzbekistan]

<With the retreat (col. 40)

of the German army from Eastern Europe, many of the refugees and evacuees returned to their places of origin, but a considerable number of Ashkenazi East European Jews settled in Uzbekistan and became integrated in administration, industry and education there. A certain rapprochement between them and the local Jews resulted from the propagation of the Russian language within both communities and the feeling of the common Jewish fate, which was emphasized by the events of the war.> (col. 41)

<The census of 1959 registered 94,344 Jews (1.2% of the total population) in Uzbekistan; 50,445 of them lived in the capital of the republic, Tashkent. Only 19,266 of them declared Tajiki to be their native language; about 27,560 Yiddish; and the remainder Russian. The 1970 Soviet census showed 103,000 Jews in Uzbekistan.> (col. 41)

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