A sparrow in the snow

Description:

This is a true story of a Jewish girl, born in Latvia in a well-off family, who went through all sorts of suffering and humiliation under the Soviets. The author writes how her father was arrested, her mother with two little daughters were exiled to Siberia, where they had to live in miserable conditions, suffering from frost and hunger. Nothing is invented in this book. The story is absolutely truthful, and tells not only the story of one family, but the story of the country.

subjects: Biography,  Jews,  Personal narratives,  Political prisoners,  Social conditions,  exiled,  history,  terror

People: Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (1870-1924),  Joseph Stalin (1879-1953),  Sylva Darel

Places: Russia,  Kansk,  Kaunas,  Krasnoyarsk,  Leningrad,  Moscow,  Riga,  Siberia,  Soviet Union

Times: 1917-,  1930s - 1953,  Latvia,  the Soviet Union