Coming Out of the Ice, Victor Herman
Coming Out of the Ice, Victor Herman
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Coming Out of the Ice
An Unexpected Life

Author: Victor Herman

Narrator: Christopher Hurt

Unabridged: 13 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/02/2009

Synopsis

In 1931, a young American named Victor Herman accompanied his parents to the Soviet Union where his father was to set up a Ford Motor Company plant. In 1938, he was inexplicably thrown into a Soviet prison. It was fortyfive years before he was able to return to America. His was a common nightmare during the Stalin years. Those who survived imprisonment and torture were either sent north to hard labor in the icy forests and mines or into exile. Victor Herman was one of the few who survived. During his life in and out of Russian prisons, he fell in love with a Russian gymnast, who followed him into exile. She lived with him and their child for a year in Siberia in a cave chopped out of ice. Theirs was a romance destined to thrive even under desperate conditions.

About Victor Herman

Victor Herman was born in America and moved to the Soviet Union with his family at the age of sixteen. There, he became a celebrity for his flying and world-record breaking parachute jumps. In 1938, he was thrown into Soviet prison, where he survived for eighteen years. After Stalin’s death he was “pardoned” and, in 1976, after much effort, was finally allowed to return to America. His family joined him in 1978. They live in Michigan.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark

I have given very few books 5 stars. With this book there was no question! This autobiography of a teenager who goes with his family from Detroit to Russia in the 1930's "for three years" to establish an automobile plant is one of the most amazing and poignant stories I have ever read (or heard). Th......more

Goodreads review by Rachel

After reading this book, I find it hard to understand why it is not in greater circulation or why it isn't more well-known. Elie Wiesel, Corrie ten Boom, and Victor Frankl are more or less household names (and rightly so), but I am baffled why more people have not read Victor Herman. Herman's account......more

Goodreads review by M.

I read this book several years ago on the recommendation of Gordon Lish. The acknowledgment page credits the person responsible for this book as one who wishes not to be cited, but Herman does provide the initials of his son A.A.L who is none other than Atticus Lish. Anyone who reads this book can p......more

Goodreads review by Candy

One of the most riveting books I have ever read. The true story of American Victor Herman who survived 18 years in Soviet prisons and another 20 in exile in the USSR before being able to return to America. (from 1931-1976) His endurance through the years of unimaginable hardships was beyond belief an......more

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