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Surviving the Gulag: A German Woman´s Memoir
Ilse Johansen
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Description for Surviving the Gulag: A German Woman´s Memoir
Paperback. Personal narrative of a German woman surviving five years in Russian prison camps. Editor(s): Marshall, Heather. Translator(s): Gahler, Hans Rudolf, MD. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVUA; 3JJ; 3JM; BM; HBJD; HBTB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking aim. Slowly I come back. Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a resourceful woman who survived five grueling years in Russian prison camps: starved, traumatized, and worked nearly to death. A story like Ilse Johansen's is rarely told-of a woman caught in the web of fascism and communism at the end of the Second World War and beginning of the Cold War. The candid story of her time as ... Read more
The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking aim. Slowly I come back. Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a resourceful woman who survived five grueling years in Russian prison camps: starved, traumatized, and worked nearly to death. A story like Ilse Johansen's is rarely told-of a woman caught in the web of fascism and communism at the end of the Second World War and beginning of the Cold War. The candid story of her time as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
436g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Alberta, Canada
ISBN
9781772120387
SKU
V9781772120387
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About Ilse Johansen
Ilse Johansen (1916-1995) was a civilian member of the German military in the Second World War. After her release from the Russian gulag in 1949, she immigrated to Canada. Heather Marshall is a writer, editor, and activist who has always been interested in social justice issues. She lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Reviews for Surviving the Gulag: A German Woman´s Memoir
Surviving the Gulag is an unflinching story of being a German woman in the very places that have been written about by so many men. [Full review at http://www.ralphmag.org/JC/gulag.html]
Lolita Lark RALPH Magazine
Lolita Lark RALPH Magazine