And the Winds Blew Cold

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.