Timurbäk Däwlätşin

Tamurbek Dawletschin (also spelled Timurbäk Däwlätşin, 26 May 1904 – 7 September 1983) was a Soviet writer and intellectual, best known for publishing one of the few memoirs by a Soviet prisoner of war held by Germany during World War II. adjacent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, in February 1942. His memoirs shed light on the conditions encountered at the camps, behavior of prisoners and guards, survival strategies, and the hierarchies and social relations that existed in the camps. Although more than 5 million Soviet prisoners were captured and around 3 million died in captivity, having been a prisoner was viewed with suspicion, leading survivors in the Soviet Union to stay quiet about their experiences. and their daughter is the Middle East historian Camilla Dawletschin-Linder.

Published works Originally published in 2005