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Eugenia Ginzburg was a young professor at the University of Kazan when a Soviet official was assassinated in 1934, leading to a bloody government crackdown on the country's revolutionary socialist elements. Accused of a crime she did not commit, Ginzburg was sentenced to ten years of hard labor in a Siberian prison camp where she experienced great hardship but found comfort in the humanity of a German doctor.