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|author=Irina Ratushinskaya
|title=In the Beginning
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=[[:Category:Irina Ratushinskaya|Irina Ratushinskaya]] was born in the Ukraine of 1954 to an engineer and a teacher. Irina's very early childhood is innocent, having been sheltered by a loving extended family from the harsher side of Soviet life. However, when Irina starts school she begins to realise that doing the right thing is often frowned on and tainted by an illogical regime. Early on she realises she has a choice: be a good Soviet citizen or be true to her own sense of justice. The choice – and living with its repercussions – form Irina's existence from that point onwards for Ratushinskaya the poet, the writer, the dissident, the prisoner.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473637244</amazonuk>
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|author=Lydia Ginzburg
|summary= Alison Pick's paternal grandparents escaped Czechoslovakia just before the Holocaust by bribing the Nazis for visas to Canada; the rest of the family died in Auschwitz. They spent their whole lives trying to pass as Christians, and Pick's father, too, was reluctant to have anything to do with Judaism. Pick only learned he was Jewish through a conversation overheard when she was 11.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472225090</amazonuk>
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