Silence was salvation: child survivors of Stalin's terror and World War II in the Soviet Union

I survived. I speak

"If you are interested in this kind of detail, I have remembered for all these years the smell of the perfume she was wearing and the color of her blouse": Aleksandr Yudelevich Zakgeim

"And we began to live there in twenty-six square meters; there were thirteen of us": Inna Aronovna Shikheeva-Gaister

"I, you understand, for my generation,...we have the psychology of persons devoted to society. we can't separate ourselves from society": Andrei Ivanovich Vorobyov

"I would ride as far as Karabas Station, but then, I don't recall, I had to go about fifty-sixty kilometers on foot": Valentin Tikhonovich Muravsky

"Silence was salvation. That's what I knew": Irina Andreevna Dubrovina

"I was so overjoyed that I had found you": Vera Mikhailovna Kostina/Vera Yulyanovna Skiba

"The feeling of loneliness has stalked me always": Tamara Nikolaevna Morozova

"I had a completely non-Soviet worldview": Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kozyrev

"I have dreamed my entire life, for me this would be a great joy to find my relatives": Maya Rudolfovna Levitina

"Well, probably, essentially, they destroyed my life, of course": Vladimir Valerianovich Timofeev.