The work describes the author’s personal experiences as a hostage and prisoner in the dungeons of the Bolshevik Cheka in 1919, as well as her return to Poland as part of a prisoner exchange.
Main themes:
Arrest and Imprisonment: Time spent in Soviet prisons and the realities of terror in post-revolutionary Soviet Russia.
Interrogation methods: An eyewitness account of how the security apparatus operated and the repressions of that time.
Return to her homeland: The dramatic circumstances of her release and the exchange of political prisoners.
Jadwiga Januszkiewiczowa is a Polish memoirist, known primarily as a witness to and victim of Bolshevik terror following the October Revolution. Her most significant contribution to documentary literature consists of her memoirs of imprisonment by the Soviet security services (Cheka)
Published by Księgarnia Perzyński, Niklewicz i S-ka (printed by F. Wyszyński i S-ka)
234 pages, with photographs in the text.
