Memoirs

This book vividly portrays the bitter trials of life in Soviet Russiaand Nazi Germany. It is a story of the authors recollections of abjectpoverty and total intimidation in which his terrified parents and villagerslived under the dictatorships of the Soviet Union from the forcible collectivizationto the advent of World War II, and of the Nazi Germany during the temporaryGerman occupation of the Caucasus. The author rebelled against the heartrending andunforgettable mistreatment of the people by both dictatorships during the war. Thisfrequently endangered his life and forced him to flee, leaving behind everything dear tohimfriends, relatives, parents, native village, and country. Thus he wandered throughRussia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Italy, at times as a hunted fugitive. Hesurvived the war and two forcible repatriations back to the Soviet Unionfirst fromAustria, and then from Italy; then he moved to Jordan, lived there for eight years, andfinally immigrated to the United States of America in 1956. Mr. Natho found shelterin the best and freest country in the world. The book is highly interesting, informative,and easy to read. It is filled, not only with the cruelties and horrors of the war anddictatorships, but also with human passion, kindness, heroism, and love. It will enrichyour soul and experience.