Siege and Survival: The Odyssey of a Leningrader

Elena Skrjabina's struggle to survive World War II began in 1941, with the blockade of Leningrad, which she describes in a previously published portion of her diary, Siege and Survival: The Odyssey of a Leningrader.

The present diary begins August 9, 1942, the night a German invasion transformed Pyatigorsk into an inferno. When the Red soldiers returned, the Skrjabins and thousands of other Russians retreated with the routed German Army. This powerful and shocking diary tells the chilling tal…