Title: A sparrow in the snow
Description: This is a true story of a Jewish girl, born in Latvia in a well-off family, who went through all sorts of suffering and humiliation under the Soviets. The author writes how her father was arrested, her mother with two little daughters were exiled to Siberia, where they had to live in miserable conditions, suffering from frost and hunger. Nothing is invented in this book. The story is absolutely truthful, and tells not only the story of one family, but the story of the country.
Subjects: Biography, Jews, Personal narratives, Political prisoners, Social conditions, exiled, history, terror
Places: Russia, Kansk, Kaunas, Krasnoyarsk, Leningrad, Moscow, Riga, Siberia, Soviet Union
People: Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (1870-1924), Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Sylva Darel
Time periods: 1917-, 1930s - 1953, Latvia, the Soviet Union