Lev Emmanuilovich Razgon (1908 – 1999) — a remarkable writer and publicist, one of the most decent and conscientious people of the past century, a laureate of the Sakharov Prize “For the Civil Courage of a Writer,” and one of the founders (together with Andrei Sakharov and Alexey Adamovich) of the “Memorial” society. Seventeen years (1938–1955) Lev Razgon spent in Soviet concentration camps, and after his release he wrote about life there and what he had endured—“Unimagined” (Nepromydannoe). Perhaps this is the best book ever written on the subject. The book has no fictional characters, episodes, dates, or events. The author’s life—his time in prisons, transit stages, and camps; his meetings with a wide variety of people who shared his fate—became the material of this book.