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In September 1984, Lisa Paul, an American college student and nanny living in Moscow, entered Inna Meiman’s house for her first Russian language lesson. And so began a two–year friendship and a fight for Inna’s life. In Swimming in the Daylight, Lisa chronicles her friend’s struggle to shed her refusenik status, obtain a visa to America, and find medical treatment for her malignant cancer. Inna endured a perverse reality as a citizen of the Soviet Union....

A classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belonging In 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewish emigration, was arrested by the KGB. He spent nine years as a political prisoner, convicted...

Med 16 ÅR I SIBIRIEN, der udkom første gang i 1982, gav Rachel og Israel Rachlin et gribende vidnesbyrd om, hvordan en familie overlevede og blev stærkere under en tvangsforflytnings hårde vilkår. I SKÆBNER I SIBIRIEN fortælles om andre ofre for Stalintidens vilkårlighed. Men det er også en beretning om 'Det andet Rusland', som langt ude i den sibiriske taiga foldede sig ud på sine helt egne og som oftest positive bestingelser. Billedet af deportationsårene udvides fra Rachlin-familien til omverdenen.