Yevgenia Ginzburg on Wikipedia.
Documentary
Tightrope Walk. Remembering Eugenia Ginzburg (2015): Password: Magadan2
German version of the documentary is here – Password: Magadan1
In 1937 – in the midst of the stalinistic cleaning, arresting and killing frenzy – Eugenia Ginzburg, professor and writer at the University of Kasan, member of the Communist Party, and her husband Pawel Aksjonov were accused to be part of a Trotskyst’s conspiracy.
Eugenia Ginzburg was deported to a Kolyma concentration and labour camp and survived there until in 1955 under Khrushchev she was rehabilitated. In The Gulag she and her second husband, the German Anton Walter, adopted a little girl (Antonina Aksjonova) and they went after the banishment from eastern Siberia to Moscow. Ginzburg died 1977 and her adopted daughter made a career as an actress and later as a director for children’s theatre in Frankfurt/Germany.
From there Antonina Aksjonova started a tour to Siberia in 2014 to search for archive material of her adoptive mother. The documentary accompanies Aksjonova on the tracks of her mother in the infamous Kolyma region. (In German: Password: Magadan1 – Gratwanderung: Erinnerungen an Jewgenia Ginsburg)
Making of “Tightrope Walk – Remembering Eugenia Ginzburg“
Evgeniia Ginzburg and Antonina Axenova Collection (@ Univ. of Notre Dame, USA)
In 2015, the Evgeniia Ginzburg and Antonina Axenova Collection was opened to students and researchers in the University of Notre Dame, South Bend. The collection consists of several parts. The most important part revolves around Evgeniia Ginzburg (1904-1977), who spent 18 years in the Stalin GULAG and who chronicled those years in her memoir translated into English as: Journey into the Whirlwind and Within the Whirlwind.
Another part of the collection revolves around Antonina Axenova, who was born in the Kolyma camps and who was adopted by Ginzburg in 1949.
Actual Book by E. Ginzburg
Journey into the Whirlwind (Part 1)