“Svitliy Shlyah”: the history of one concentration camp

The prison, which is actually a concentration camp where horrific torture is used, operates in modern Ukraine. There are no laws behind the prison fence, there is a completely different life: in humiliation, fear and uncertainty, with wounds and burns on the body, with pain from broken bones and often from broken will and consciousness. The main task here is to survive when you no longer want to live and almost nothing depends on you, to maintain common sense when you are close to madness, to remain human in inhuman conditions, where faith, forgiveness, hatred and even the gaze between cat and victim acquire others meanings.

To survive in the hell of the concentration camp, journalist Stanislav Aseyev wrote this book – frank, emotional, deep, in which there are more questions than answers, because people’s lives after release from captivity are forever divided into “before” and “after”.

The Ukrainian translation is presented next to the original.

The book was supported by the International Renaissance Foundation.