New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education

[Edward M Dumanis]

I am not aware whether a translation of Olitskaya's "Moi vospominanija" 
exists in English. I read it in Samizdat.
Her book was published in Germany: E. Olitskaya, Moi vospominaniya 
(Frankfurt/ Main, Possev-Verlag, 1971)
Quoting from Richard Stites (The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: 
Feminism, Nihilism, and Bolshevism, 1860-1930 [1978 - Social Science - 
464 pages]), "The fullest memoir of the period is Ekaterina Olitskaya, Moi 
vospominaniya."
I second this. If you search her name on the Internet as Ekaterina or 
Yekaterina, you cannot find much in English, and I could not find the text 
available as a pdf-file either. But some libraries do have it, and it 
might be still available through the publisher.
Olitskaya was one of the first prisoners of GULAG, and her memoir covers 
the whole history of the camps. She has already spent there more than 10 
years when L. Ginzburg was just arrested.

Sincerely,

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>

On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Robert Chandler wrote:

> Shalamov is not primarily a writer of memoirs.  He wrote carefully crafted
> rasskazy that are full of literary references.  I also did not mention him
> because I think he is less suitable for this particular HIGH-SCHOOL project
> than Ginzburg.  But please say more about Olitskaya - I am ignorant.
>
> Best wtishes,
>
> Robert
>
>
>
>
>> I doubt it is better then Olitskaya and Shalamov.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>
>>
>> On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Robert Chandler wrote:
>> ......./snip/.......
>>>
>>> And I doubt if there is any better memoir about the camps than Evgenia
>>> Ginzburg's.
>>>
>>> Best Wishes,
>>>
>>> Robert
>>
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