Polyak, Ilya

Ilya Polyak Biographical Sketch 1937: Born in Ufa, Ural, Russia, where my father was exiled as an immigrant from Rumania; my mother was also exiled there from Leningrad in a stream of mass repression after Kirov's (one of the Party leaders) murder. 1941-1942: Resident of the Blockaded Leningrad (In 1989, I was given a memorial medal). 1942: Evacuated (almost dead) from Blockaded Leningrad on the icy "Road of Life" through frozen Ladoga Lake to Siberia. 1942-1946: Our family was in evacuation in Omsk. 1946: My parents were thrown into prison. 1946-1948: With brother and sister, I was an inmate