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John Noble - American survivor of Stalin's Gulag
John Noble, who died on November 10 aged 84, spent several years in the Soviet gulag system despite being an American citizen, and later wrote about his experiences in two books of memoirs.Noble's father, Charles, was a German missionary who had moved to Detroit, Michigan, where John was born on September 4 1923. Later, Charles Noble left the church and took over an ailing photo-finishing company for which his wife worked and whose owners had moved to California. The Nobles eventually built the company into one of the largest in the United States. Posted by: mrp 2007-11-17 |
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