This field report was assigned the following topical and geographical subject headings by the RFE/RL: Czechoslovakia; Prisons and Camps -- Health Conditions; Health and Recreation -- Labor Conditions and Health; Prisons and Camps -- Inmates; Labor -- Forced Labor; Industry -- Mining Uranium; Prisons and Camps -- Jachymov
Context
Creation Note:
Item based on interviews conducted with defectors and immigrants in Western refugee camps and immigration offices, or
Western travelers returning from stays in East European communist countries, supplemented with information collected through
Radio Free Europe (RFE) correspondence with anonymous sources from behind the Iron Curtain. This item was transmitted from the Munich field office.
Source:
Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute: General Records: Information Items (HU OSA 300-1-2)
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Archival ID:
HU OSA 300-1-2-41710
Suggested Citation:
"Mass Diseases among Jachymov Miners", 15 December 1953. HU OSA 300-1-2-41710; Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute: General Records: Information Items; Open Society Archives at Central European University, Budapest.
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