Dr eugenia ginzburg biography

Eugenia Ginzburg (1906-77) was.
Yevgenia Solomonovna Ginzburg (December 20, 1904 – May 25, 1977) was a Soviet writer who served an 18-year sentence in the Kolyma Gulag.
Evgeniia Semonovna Ginzburg was born on December 20, 1904 and died on May 25, 1977.

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Eugenia Ginzburg

Eugenia Ginzburg (1906-77)

Eugenia Ginzburg(1906-77) was born in Moscow but grew up in Kazan, a major provincial city. Her family was Jewish – her father was a pharmacist. After teacher training she took a degree in history; soon she was assistant professor and a full member of the Communist Party. She married when she was 20 and had a son; then, after her divorce, in 1930 she married a Party official, Pavel Aksyonov and in 1932 had another son. But in 1937, during the Great Purge, she was expelled from the Party and sent to the Gulag in the Russian Far East. Released in 1949, she remained in exile in Kolyma where she married a doctor, Anton Walter, and adopted a daughter, Tonya; her second son Vasily joined them (her first son died in the siege of Leningrad). She was ‘rehabilitated’ in 1955, lived in Lvov, and after her husband’s death, in Moscow, where she wrote two volumes of memoirs.Into the Whirlwind, which could not be published in the Soviet Union, came out in Italy (in Russian) and in English in 1967; Within the Whirlwind was published in Italy

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Ginzburg, Evgenia Semenovna

(1904–1977), Stalin-era memoirist.

Evgenia Semenovna Ginzburg was one of the most well-known and respected memoirists of Josef Stalin's purges and life in the Soviet Gulag. She was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Moscow. She became a teacher and party activist in Kazan. She married Pavel Aksenov, a high-ranking party official in Kazan, and the couple had two sons. The eldest, Alyosha, would die during the Siege of Leningrad; the younger, Vasily, became a noted writer in his own right. In 1937 both Ginzburg and her husband were arrested. Ginzburg spent the next two years in solitary confinement before being sent to a labor camp in Kolyma. While in the camps, she undertook a variety of work, including nursing, and she met Anton Walter, a fellow prisoner who worked as a doctor. He became her second husband. In 1947 Ginzburg was released from captivity but chose to stay in the Magadan area to wait for Walter to finish his allotted prison sentence. She began teaching Russian language and literature. Ironically many of her students at the

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Evgeniia Semonovna Ginzburg was born on December 20, 1904 and died on May 25, 1977. Her memoirs of the Soviet camp system are both historically informative and of considerable literary value. Though they circulated for many years in "Samizdat" (undergound, often handwritten or typewritten form) in the Soviet Union, and were published abroad in several different languages, they were not published in the USSR until 1989. (Journey into the Whirlwind, which I keep misnaming "Into the Whirlwind," first appeared in English in Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward's translation in 1967; the second volume, translated as Within the Whirlwind, came out in Ian Boland's translation in 1981.) Ginzburg is also of note as the mother of author Vasilii Aksyonov, who was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1980. His partly-autobiographical and partly-fantastic novel, The Burn, includes some passages about her. (Aksyonov was originally educated as a doctor largely on his mother's advice -- she told him to do something useful.)

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