A gripping memoir of a young woman’s encounter with communism and nazism. Luba experiences imprisonment, torture, death row, violence, exile, escape, resistance, and finally, flees to the West. Throughout, she maintains her dignity and manifests a quiet heroism, demonstrating that totalitarianism is powerless in the face of an individual with the spiritual courage to speak the truth. The book is a powerful testament to its author and similar prisoners, and the times in which they lived.