A young Woman's Triumph Over Evil
Cilka's story is a young woman's struggle for survival against great odds. Forced to engage with her German captors in order to live, she is then labeled a collaborator. The suffering in Stalin's Siberian work camps is known to have been as horrible or even more horrible than that of the Nazis. Cilka's imprisonment there and her strength in overcoming make this a story that people will want to read.