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01623aam a2200337 a 4500 001 1DEA42D0182011E2B2752CA76AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20121017010136 008 090529s2009 oru 000 1 eng 010 $a 2009929678 020 $a 1934961035 020 $a 9781934961032 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3623.E425 $b F76 2009 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 22 100 1 $a Weidenweber, Sigrid, $d 1941- 245 1 $a From Gulag to freedom : $b the indomitable spirit of the Volga Germans / $c Sigrid Weidenweber. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a Portland, OR : $b Center for Volga German Studies at Concordia University, $c c2009. 300 $a ix, 425 p. ; $c 24 cm. 490 0 $a The Volga flows forever ; $v bk. 3 520 $a A novel, drawn on historical material, about growing up in a Volga German colony and surviving the hardships of Soviet collectivization, deportation and imprisonment in a Siberian gulag. Katharina, the heroine, with the help of a native Komi tribesman, escapes from the gulag and makes her way to the San Joaquin Valley of Central California where she becomes part of the Volga German community that had been established there decades earlier. 650 0 $a Russian Germans $x Fiction. $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Germans $x Fiction. $x Volga River Valley $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Forced labor $x Fiction. $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Immigrants $x Fiction. $x Fiction. 650 0 $a German Americans $x Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20151216020247.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1DEA42D0182011E2B2752CA76AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search