About Vladimir Rott
Vladimir Rott is a Canadian Engineer who "forgot" to return to Russia in 1974, where he was a Manager at the Lada car factory in Tolyatti. He now lives with his family in Toronto, Canada.
Father's Letters from Siberian Prison
This is an edited collection of letters from prison written by Ferenc Roth a Hungarian citizen who went to Russia in 1931 to work on contract, building a lumber mill in Bobruysk, Belarus. In 1938 he was arrested by Stalin's regime and sent to Siberia. He spent 12 years there, waiting for release and clearing of his name. During this time he continuously wrote letters to his family describing his ordeals and expressing hopes for a imminent return home. These precious letters are all that remained of him, because he never returned from Siberian prison.
Vladimir Rott, his son who never saw his father after the age of 3 years old, has translated these letters and edited them for publication in 2007. These letters were published in Russian, then Hungarian and English.
Joy from Sadness (Garadna - Miskolc - Bobruysk - Tomsk - Tolyatti - Toronto)
He wrote this book in memory of his parents. It takes the reader to a Hungarian village, then follows the author's school years, his life as a child under the German occupation of Bobruyssk (Belarus), his years as a student in Tomsk and an engineer in Siberia, and his work on the enormous construction of LADA-VAZ, the Volga automobile plant in Togliatti. The author also shares his experience of surviving, adapting to a new life, and raising his children in Canada.
"I am not a writer, but I have to tell the story of events and people whose memory, I believe, must not disappear," - Rott writes in the introduction. Not being a writer, but endowed with great love of life and phenomenal memory, he has written a remarkable book that is a living testament to the epoch.
Father's Letters from Siberian Prison is a part of this larger biography of Vladimir Rott, Joy from Sadness (Garadna - Miskolc - Bobruysk - Tomsk - Tolyatti - Toronto). Currently available in Russian, English & Hungarian versions coming soon.
