Hava Volovich
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Hava Vladimirovna Volovich , was a Russian writer, actress, director and a Gulag
survivor.
Hava Volovich is known for her Memoirs, that are extremely valuable both historically and literary.
Her notes from the prison-camp are being compared to Shalamov's stories and The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anna Frank.
Volovich narrates, with heartbreaking honesty, the story of her child born in the camp.
family in the small Ukraine
town Mena in 1916.
In 1934 she finished a seven year school and worked as typesetter followed by a job as sub-editor with a local newspaper.
She was arrested on August 14, 1937 on the charge of Anti-Soviet agitation and sentenced to fifteen years "ITL"
She served her time in "Sevjerdorlag" (lumbering) at the "Mariinskii" (farm work), in "Ozerlag" and in "Djezkazgan".
In 1942, she had a daughter, who died in a camp in 1944.
For many years she participated in the camp amateur productions, acting in the camp theater and organizing a marionette theater.
She was released on April 20, 1953. After the camp, she lived in exile until 1956.
In 1957, she returned to her hometown.
Starting in 1958, she directed the local club puppet
theater.
She was exonerated on December 28, 1963.
She died in Mena on February 14, 2000.
Gulag
The Gulag was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems. While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of...
survivor.
Hava Volovich is known for her Memoirs, that are extremely valuable both historically and literary.
Her notes from the prison-camp are being compared to Shalamov's stories and The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944 and Anne Frank ultimately died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen...
by Anna Frank.
Volovich narrates, with heartbreaking honesty, the story of her child born in the camp.
Biography
Hava Vladimirovna (Vilkovna) Volovich was born into a JewishJudaism
Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...
family in the small Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
town Mena in 1916.
In 1934 she finished a seven year school and worked as typesetter followed by a job as sub-editor with a local newspaper.
She was arrested on August 14, 1937 on the charge of Anti-Soviet agitation and sentenced to fifteen years "ITL"
She served her time in "Sevjerdorlag" (lumbering) at the "Mariinskii" (farm work), in "Ozerlag" and in "Djezkazgan".
In 1942, she had a daughter, who died in a camp in 1944.
For many years she participated in the camp amateur productions, acting in the camp theater and organizing a marionette theater.
She was released on April 20, 1953. After the camp, she lived in exile until 1956.
In 1957, she returned to her hometown.
Starting in 1958, she directed the local club puppet
Puppet
A puppet is an inanimate object or representational figure animated or manipulated by an entertainer, who is called a puppeteer. It is used in puppetry, a play or a presentation that is a very ancient form of theatre....
theater.
She was exonerated on December 28, 1963.
She died in Mena on February 14, 2000.
See also
- White Sea-Baltic CanalWhite Sea-Baltic CanalThe White Sea – Baltic Sea Canal , often abbreviated to White Sea Canal is a ship canal in Russia opened on 2 August 1933. It connects the White Sea with Lake Onega, which is further connected to the Baltic Sea. Until 1961, its original name was the Stalin White Sea – Baltic Sea Canal...
- History of the Soviet UnionHistory of the Soviet UnionThe history of the Soviet Union has roots in the Russian Revolution of 1917. The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, emerged as the main political force in the capital of the former Russian Empire, though they had to fight a long and brutal civil war against the Mensheviks, or Whites...
- GulagGulagThe Gulag was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems. While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of...
- Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code)Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code)Article 58 of the Russian SFSR Penal Code was put in force on 25 February 1927 to arrest those suspected of counter-revolutionary activities. It was revised several times...
- Enemy of the peopleEnemy of the peopleThe term enemy of the people is a fluid designation of political or class opponents of the group using the term. The term implies that the "enemies" in question are acting against society as a whole. It is similar to the notion of "enemy of the state". The term originated in Roman times as ,...
Publications
Журнал «Горизонт», № 2, 1989 г..Доднесь тяготеет. [Сб. воспоминаний]. Вып. 1. Записки вашей современницы / Сост. С. С. Виленский. — М.: Сов. пис., 1989. — С. 461—494.Озерлаг: как это было / сост. Л. С. Мухин. — Иркутск : Вост.-Сиб. кн. изд-во, 1992. — С. 55-87.Театр Гулага. Воспоминания. Очерки / Сост. М. М. Кораллов. — М.: Звенья, 1995. — С. 143—155 Театр ГУЛАГа.Отечественные записки. 2006. № 2/27 (на сайте ОЗ текст убран, но сохранился в кэше Яндекса).- Till my Tale is Told.[women's memoirs of GULAG] by Indiana University Press, 1999.Till my Tale is Told
- Gulag Voices. edited by Anne Applebaum, Yale University Press, 2011.Gulag Voices