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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.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Women political prisoners--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Women political prisoners.
- Women prisoners--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Women prisoners.
- Germans--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Germans.
- Political persecution--Soviet Union.
- Political persecution.
- Internment camps--Soviet Union.
- Internment camps.
- Forced labor--Soviet Union.
- Forced labor.
- Soviet Union--History--1925-1953.
- Soviet Union.
- Johansen, Ilse, 1916-1995.
- Johansen, Ilse.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edmonton, Alberta : The University of Alberta Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German to English.
- Summary:
- One woman's story of her struggle to survive while imprisoned in a Soviet gulag following World War II."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 a prisoner, written soon after her release, provides startling insight into the ordeal 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."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." --Lolita Lark,RALPH Magazine
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1-77212-290-4
- OCLC:
- 953887595
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