Career
Hava Volovich is known for her Memoirs, that are extremely valuable both historically and literary. Her notes from the prison-camp are being compared to Shalamov"s stories and The Diary of a Young Girl by Anna Frank. Against everything that has been written about the selfishness, the venality of the women who bore children in the camps, stands the story of Hava Volovich.
Hava Vladimirovna (Vilkovna) Volovich was born into a Jewish family in the small Ukraine town Mena in 1916.
In 1934 she finished a seven-year school and worked as typesetter followed by a job as sub-editor with a local newspaper. She was arrested on August 14, 1937 on the charge of Anti-Soviet agitation and sentenced to fifteen years "ITL" She served her time in "Sevzheldorlag" (lumbering) at the "Mariinsky Mine" (Мариинский прииск) (farm work), in "Ozerlag" and in "Dzhezkasgan".
In 1942, she had a daughter, who died in a camp in 1944. Foreign many years she participated in the camp amateur productions, acting in the camp theater and organizing a marionette theater.
She was released on April 20, 1953.
After the camp, she lived in exile until 1956. In 1957, she returned to her hometown. Starting in 1958, she directed the local club puppet theater.
She was exonerated on December 28, 1963.
She died in Mena on February 14, 2000.