Just Send Me Word: A True Story Of Love And Survival In The Gulag - Plot & Excerpts
Kept in private family archives, they offer direct evidence of a lived reality, written at the time, and letting us into the interior world of the people writing them. Through letters we can follow the stories of individuals, families and even whole generations against the background of historical events. They are particularly valuable when they are written during periods of turmoil in the lives of their authors. Memorial has a large archive of correspondence from the time of the Gulag – letters to the camps and letters from the camps. Most of the letters are to the camps. For prisoners, a letter was the only thread connecting them to ‘normal’ life. They tried not to lose the letters they received, and after their release they preserved them as precious things. By contrast, few letters from the camp survive. It was dangerous to hold on to ‘evidence’ of contact with a prisoner. The Memorial archive contains various collections of such letters. Sometimes just a single page – or only a torn fragment – has survived.
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