In honor of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Corrections1 presents the following short video (3:49 min), a collection of pen and ink drawings by Thomas Sgovio.
Born in Buffalo, NY in 1916, Sgovio miraculously survived 16 years in a Soviet prison camp of Siberia’s far north. Known as “The Gulag”, Stalin’s collection of Arctic prisoner work camps were notrious for their violence, starvation and death.
Millions of people were exiled to them during Stalin’s regime. Work like Sgovio’s is important because so little remains to educate us of the horrors of that time: