Surviving the gulag : a German woman's memoir / Ilse Johansen ; Heather Marshall, editor ; Hans Rudolf Gahler, translator.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johansen, Ilse, 1916-1995, author.

Contributor:

Marshall, Heather, 1956- editor.

Gahler, Hans Rudolf, translator.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Johansen, Ilse, 1916-1995.

Johansen, Ilse.

Women political prisoners--Soviet Union--Biography.

Women political prisoners.

Women prisoners.

Soviet Union.

Women prisoners--Soviet Union--Biography.

Germans--Soviet Union--Biography.

Germans.

Political persecution--Soviet Union.

Political persecution.

Internment camps--Soviet Union.

Internment camps.

Forced labor--Soviet Union.

Forced labor.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 251 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, Alberta : The University of Alberta Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a complex woman who survived five horrifying years in Russian prison camps: starved, beaten, 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. Her candid account of her time as a prisoner, written soon after her release, provides startling insight into the trials of a German female prisoner under Soviet rule. Readers of memoir and history, and students of feminism and war studies, will learn more about women's experience of the Soviet gulag through the eyes of Ilse Johansen."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes index.

Translated from the German.

Other Format:

Johansen, Ilse, 1916-1995, author. Surviving the gulag.

ISBN:

9781772120387

1772120383

OCLC:

934885839