Meter cover Netherlands 1985

Victor Herman was a Jewish-American who spent 18 years as a Soviet prisoner in the Gulags of Siberia. He was one of thousands of Americans sympathetic towards Communism who went to the Soviet Union in the early 1930s to work but who met tragic fates during the Stalin purges. He briefly held the world record in 1934 for the highest parachute jump and became known as the Lindbergh of Russia.

His memoir of his experiences, Coming Out of the Ice (1979), became the basis for a 1982 CBS-TV movie starring John Savage and country-singer Willie Nelson. ( WIKIPEDIA )

Book: Coming Out of the Ice / Dutch translation : Mijn vlucht uit Siberie