Sixteen years in Siberia: memoirs of Rachel and Israel Rachlin. Translated from the Danish and with a foreword by Birgitte M. de Weille
Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1988. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 251, [1]; map endpapers, 7 illustrations from photographs; a fine copy in the dust jacket. "A compelling account of a young Jewish Lithuanian family who were marked as 'anti-Soviet elements' ... Their home was ransacked by the Soviet secret police, and they were removed from their home in Kybartai on June 14, 1941 ... The family of five -a grandmother, two young parents, and two small children- were ordered to pack warm clothing and then loaded into the back of an open truck ... and were forced to live in exile in Siberia for the next sixteen years" (jacket blurb). Item #71360
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