Sentence Siberia: A Story of Survival

By Douglas Hoile, Ann Lehtmets, Douglas Hoile

Book Overview

Ann Lehtmets is one of the few people alive in the western world to have lived through Stalin's holocaust. This is her tale of survival in a world where existence was difficult for all and deadly for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1862543135
• ISBN13: 9781862543133
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Wakefield Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.9" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

A journey into my Estonian heritage

The author was a friend of my grandmother's. The three of us would play the card game 'Bismark' together when I was a teenager. I wish I would have known to ask her questions about her life. She was a sassy, strong, lovable woman who enjoyed her cigarettes at a precise intensity. I always remembered her saying that she was worked so hard in Siberia that the bone of her leg had almost no skin on it.

Tale of courage

I bought this expecting it to be about life in the gulag labor camps. That's not exactly what it was, but it didn't matter. I really enjoyed it regardless. It is the story of a Latvian woman who is taken from her home, sent to a village in Siberia, and forced to work at backbreaking jobs to survive. Not forced at gunpoint, but, rather, in order to earn enough food to eke out a subsistence (barely) level of survival. She manages by sheer courage, creativity, wits and backbone, while many others starved and froze to death around her. Read it if you want a story of what people can do to survive, if the have the will and the strength. An amazing woman with an amazing story.