Jevgenia Semjonovna Ginzboerg (Russian: Евгения Семёновна Гинзбург) (Moscow, December 20, 1904 - May 25, 1977) was a Russian communist, scientist and writer, especially famous for her memoirs.
LifeGinzboerg was born as a daughter of a Jewish pharmacist's family. At a young age she moved to Kazan, studied Social Sciences and Pedagogy at the university and later became a teacher. She married Pawel Aksjonov, Kazan's mayor and became a member of the Communist Party. They received two sons, including the later writer Vasili Aksjonov (1932-2009).
In February 1937 Ginzboerg was cast out of the party with her husband because they would be in contact with Trotzkisten. In July of that year she was arrested and sentenced to 10 years of forced labor (her husband up to 15 years). She made a long odyssey along prisons, bans and labor camps. She stayed in the women's camp Alschir (Алжир) at Karaganda. In that camp she learned to know Anton Walter, who worked there as a doctor and with whom she later married.
In 1949, Ginzboerg was officially released, but she still had to continue working in the Siberian Magadan area. In 1950 she was arrested again, banned from the Kolyma and only in 1953 (after Stalin's death), they should return to Moscow. In 1955 she was officially rehabilitated. Memoires
Back in Moscow, Ginzboerg worked on her autobiography The Descent Radar (1966, Dutch translation 1967), which was not published in Russia (they appeared in Samizdat editions). In the West, her autobiographical works were, however, a great success. They still coincide with the memorials of Nadezjda Mandelstam, as the most impressive memorials about Stalin's horrors appeared before the glass nest and give an impression of the fate of an individual between Stalin's "races of arbitrariness", exemplary of the fate of hundreds of thousands in that time. "The most absurd feelings tore me apart," writes Ginzboerg, "but the main thing was astonishment. Such a thing was not conceivable, something could not happen."
The Descent Radar was filmed in Belgium-French-German-Polish production in 2009, under the title Within the Whirlwind, with Marleen Gorris as director and Emily Watson in the lead.
In addition to the Descent Radar, Ginzboerg wrote several other novels and autobiographical works, which less attracted attention. Noteworthy, the posthumously appeared Kolyma heaven.
Ginzboerg remained faithful to the true communist ideal until the end of her life. She died in Moscow in 1977, at the age of 72. Literature and sources Externe link
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