Produktdetails
Titel: And the Winds Blew Cold
Autor/en: Eva Stolar Meltz, Rae Gunter Osgood
ISBN: 0939923858
EAN: 9780939923854
Stalinist Russia As Experienced by an American Emigrant.
b/w photos.
Sprache: Englisch.
McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, US
1. Januar 2000 - gebunden - 486 Seiten
Beschreibung
And the Winds Blew Cold is the story of Eva Stolar Meltz, a Russian-American Jewish woman who emigrated with her family from Chicago, Illinois, in 1931 to the USSR, where for over 40 years she endured life in Communist Russia. This book chronicles a fascinating life that unfolded within tumultuous political, social, and economic circumstances.
-- A Russian-American Jewish woman's perspective on the trials of life in the Soviet Union from 1931-1972
Inhaltsverzeichnis
The Main Personalities in the Book; Prologue: My Years with Eva; The Early Years in Moscow; The First Wave of Terror; The War Years; The Second Wave of Terror; In the Labour Camps; Freedom; Epilogue; Letters from Eva; Index.
Portrait
Eva Stolar Meltz was born in 1910 in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants. In 1931, she moved with her parents, brother, and husband to Moscow, USSR. In Moscow, she raised a family and, for many years, taught at the Institute of Cinematography. She left the USSR in the 1970s, moving first to Israel and then to the United States, where she spent her last years with her childhood friend Rae Gunter Osgood in Culver City, California. Rae Gunter Osgood was born in 1910 in Chicago, Illinois. She holds degrees from Crane Junior College, the University of Illinois, and North-western University (MA in Counseling). Ms. Osgood worked in Chicago in the 1930s and early 1940s as a social worker and school teacher, and thereafter taught in the Los Angeles City Schools until retirement. She currently lives in Culver City, California.