Irina Ratushinskaya discusses her book "Beyond the Limit"

BROADCAST: Mar. 10, 1987 | DURATION: 00:52:28

Digital audio not yet public.

Even while spending four years in a labor camp, Irina Ratushinskaya managed to write her poems on bars of soap. Ratushinkaya explained that one must keep their sense of humor while in the labor camps because there is nothing else. Other women in the camps helped Ratushinkaya smuggle her poems to the outside world.

Broadcast Date
Mar. 10, 1987

Physical Format
1 sound tape reel (ca. 55 min.) : 10 1/2 in.

Duration
52 minutes, 28 seconds

Digital Format
WAV

Ownership
The Chicago History Museum

Language
English

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