Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of Ilse Johansen, a woman who survived five years in Russian prison camps. She was starved, traumatized, beaten and worked nearly to death.
Johansen was a German woman caught between fascism and communism at the end of the Second World War and the start of the Cold War. She wrote her candid account soon after her release. It offers insight into what a German female prisoner endured under Soviet rule.
The book is written for readers of memoir and history, and for students of feminism and war studies. It includes an introduction by Michael Seadle.
- Author
- Ilse Johansen
- Introduction
- Michael Seadle
- Genre
- Memoir, history
- Subject
- A German woman's five years in Soviet prison camps