Margaret Werner Tobien (1921–1997) was an American woman who survived imprisonment in a gulag, a Siberian labor camp of Stalinist Russia.
Margaret Werner was born in 1921 near Detroit, Michigan, and her father worked for Ford Motor Company.
When she was 17, Werner's father was arrested and imprisoned in the Soviet Union after being convicted on trumped-up charges of treason.
[1] Left to survive in the Soviet Union, Werner and her mother faced years of poverty and near starvation.
Margaret Werner and many women found ways to adjust to the cruel conditions they were forced to live through.