As Sarah Young notes on her blog (mentioned here previously), Nikolai Getman’s "Gulag Collection" is not the only visual record of the Gulag.
She notes that:
"The website of Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya’s extraordinary and evocative illustrations of her twelve years in the Gulag allows the pictures to speak for themselves."And further, as "only the introductory section of the website so far [has] been translated into English" it is certainly of some interest that the Kersnovskaya Foundation has graciously made a few images available under Creative Commons License via Wikipedia.
"Killing Her Baby"
Someone is Praying for You, Hard!
In my opinion, overall, they are even more stirring and powerful than those left behind by Getman (1917-2004), but you can decide for yourself.
Kersnovskaya (1908-1994), who spent 12 years in Gulag camps, wrote her memoirs in 12 notebooks with most yet to be translated into English (some works have been translated into German and French, however).
Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya
More of this important collection can be viewed here.
The Getman "Gulag Collection" can be viewed online here.
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