Hava Volovich

Hava Volovich
Born1916
Ukraine
Died2000
Mena, Ukraine, USSR
OccupationWriter, actress, director
SubjectGulag witness
Notable worksVospominaniia (memoirs)
Website
sites.google.com/site/havavolovich/

Hava Vladimirovna Volovich (ru:Волович, Хава Владимировна;1916–2000), was a Ukrainian writer, actress, puppet theater director and Gulag survivor. In literary value and historical witness, her notes from the Soviet forced labour camps have been compared with Shalamov's stories and Anne Frank's Diary.[1][2] Anne Applebaum wrote that Volovich stands out in the anthology "Gulag Voices", as she, like Elena Glinka, was not afraid to touch upon taboo subjects[3] Volovich's story about her own child in the camp contrasts to some stereotypes about the selfishness and venality of gulag prisoners who bore children there.[4][5]

  1. ^ Gorodetskaya, Alain (February 14, 2016). "Дневники "советской Анны Франк" [Diaries of a Soviet Anne Frank]". Jewish.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  2. ^ Volovich, Hava (1999). Vilensky, Simeon (ed.). My Past. In: Till my Tale is Told: Women's Memoirs of the Gulag. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana Univ. Press. pp. 241–278. ISBN 0-253-33464-0.
  3. ^ Applebaum, Anne (2011). Gulag Voices: An Anthology (Anne Applebaum ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-300-15320-0.
  4. ^ Coak, Katryna (19 June 2012). "'A Day in the Life Of…': Women of the Soviet Gulag". The View East – Dr Kelly Hignett. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  5. ^ Shapovalov, Veronica, ed. (2001). Remembering the Darkness: Women in Soviet Prisons. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7425-1146-0.