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Show American will tell of life in Russian camp John Noble, one of the few Americans ever to return from t a Russian slave labor camp, ' will give his unforgettable ex periences when he speaks at the Provo Tabernacle, 20 So. University Avenue, Provo, Friday, Fri-day, November 1, at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Noble is sponsored by the National Association of ; Evangelicals in cooperation with local churches and organizations. organ-izations. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1923, and attended attend-ed school there until 1938. At that time he accompanied his parents to Germany to study in one of his father's photo industry in-dustry factories while his fath-. fath-. ' er wes receiving medical treat ment. When World War II broke out the Noble family was put under local internment by Hitler's Hit-ler's forces until 1945. As the Soviet Red Army occupied East Germany, the Nobles expected ex-pected to be liberated, since they were United States citi zens, but instead, were imprisoned impris-oned by the Soviets. Later John's parents were released but he was held in the Dresden prison fourteen months, without with-out accusation or explanation, and late in 1946, shipped to concentration camp Muehlerg, in East Germany, then on to notorious Buchenwald. Mr. Noble met a group of Mormons who were in the same situation as they were considered pro-American because be-cause they were Mormons. In 1950, Noble was sentenced, sen-tenced, without trial or accusation, accu-sation, to fifteen years imprisonment impris-onment and shipped through Poland into the USSR. For four and a half yers he was kept in the infamous artic slave ,camp "Vorkuta" working work-ing in the coal mines under unspeakable conditions. John Noble dropped to under one hundred pounds in weight and had to endure fifty and more degrees below zero temperatures. tempera-tures. He was one of the 100, 000 of the 500,000 prisoners at Vorkuta who participated in the first uprising against Communism Com-munism in the Soviet Union. Finally, John Noble was able to smuggle out of Russia a postcard which reached his parents in Detroit and resulted in his liberation after personal intervention by President Eisenhower. Eis-enhower. John Noble, who related his religious experience in his book, "I Found God in Soviet Russia," has dedicated his life to serve God and the American Ameri-can nation. He spends much of his time on speaking tours from coast to coast in an effort ef-fort to awaken America to the dangers of communism. A budget is merely a mathematical math-ematical confirmation of your suspicians. |