There will be thing left to harvest. It will all become clear tomorrow. Few people kw about the Purge of the Kulaks in Russia, as this is a suppressed part of history. Based on real stories of people who actually lived through this terrible time, the fictional Jahnle family is falsely evacuated from their farm in a small village near the Black Sea, and begins their journey rth, into the unkwn, with many other German-Russian families like them. It is nearly harvest season of 1929. Not understanding what is happening to them, the family experiences adventure at the beginning of their trek, as they traverse the first four hundred miles by horse and wagon. During this trip they come into contact with the NKVD (the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, which later becomes the foundation of the KGB.) They are loaded into an overcrowded cattle-car on a very long train and taken nearly nine-hundred miles to the labor camps on the coast of the White Sea, near the town of Onega, in western Siberia. Here they are exposed to separation, interrogation, starvation, over-work, cruelty and death. The ever-present love of the family members for one ather, combined with the solid foundation of their faith in God, runs like a fine silk thread holding them together through the worst of situations, and yet doubt and disbelief often permeate their souls. But this story is t all doom and gloom. There is hope and the promise of a better life for some of them.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Outskirts Press
ISBN-10
1432797735
ISBN-13
9781432797737
eBay Product ID (ePID)
140035523
Dimensions
Weight
517g
Height
229mm
Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Spine
20mm
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Author Biography
Pamela Atherstone is the great-granddaughter of German-Russian immigrants and an amateur genealogist focusing on Russians of German heritage. This is her first novel, and she is currently working on a continuation to this story. She lives in the Central Valley of California with her husband, Jim, and her horses and dogs.
