U[pite], Ruta [Rutina] (1927 - 1957)
Ioffe, Elkhonon, translator
Selga, Evgenii, preface
Bozhe, kak eshche khotelos´ zhit´., London, Overseas Publications Interchange 1989., 129 p.
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Originally published in Latvian as 'Vel ta gribejas dzivot'. New York, Gramatu Draugs, 1977. The wrenching account by Rutina Upite, a fourteen years girl deported with her family from Latvia to Siberaia on 14 th of June, 1941, her return to Latvia in 1946 and new deportation to Siberia from Latvia in 1950. The book also appeared in English and German.

See: Stalinskie deportatsii: 1928 - 1953. (M., 2005)