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In Their Own Words

Ruta Pempe Sevo, AM’70, PhD’76, AM’78

Old Europe. Vilnius is just recovering from Soviet occupation. A scientist travels to the country of his parents and digs into the stories and numbers of the Holocaust and Gulag. His personal world begins to fall apart. Things happen that he cannot explain. Someone is leaving strange drawings in his apartment. Why? A story of travel, family, and loss.

Art by Tadas Gutauskas + photo illustrations. Cover design by Holly Russell Milstein.

Posted July 6, 2007