2 Quotes & Sayings By Natalia Ginzburg
Natalia Ginzburg was born in St. Petersburg. After graduation she worked as a journalist for the St. Petersburg News Agency, then became a reporter for the St
Petersburg Review of Literature and Arts, where she met her future husband, Vladimir Ginzburg. The couple moved to Paris, where they lived until 1941, when Stalin's forces invaded France and Natalia was deported to Auschwitz with her husband, who died there. Natalia survived but was incarcerated in various camps until the liberation of Bergen-Belsen in 1945.
She made her way back to Paris after the war ended and married Vladimir Ginzburg, who had survived Auschwitz thanks to the help of a Red Cross volunteer. He died in 1990; Natalia is now an active member of the Russian Jewish community and lives in Paris.