Author: Alfred Kokh

Pavel Polian (Ph D Moscow University) is a geographer, historian and literary scholar (publishing under the pseudonym Pavel Nerler). His interests range from the history of forced migration and Jewish immigration and emigration to the history of captivity during the Second World War and the history of the Holocaust. Polian graduated from the faculty of geography of Moscow University, where he later defended two dissertations (1980 and 1998) and where he has been a professor since 2008. He is also a researcher at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Polian is the author of Victims of Two Dictatorships: Life, Labor, Humiliation and Death of Soviet War Prisoners and Ostarbeiters Abroad and in Their Motherland (1996), Deportiert nach Hause (2001), Against their Will: the History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR (2003) and many others.