# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-herman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:21:29.965Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-herman"
name: "Victor Herman"
slug: "victor-herman"
description: "Victor Herman was a Jewish-American who spent 18 years as a Soviet prisoner in the Gulags of Siberia. At 16 years of age, his family went to work in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s but met tragic fates during the Stalin purges."
tagline: "American prisoner in Siberia (1915-1985)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9c/Victor_Herman_and_family.jpg/330px-Victor_Herman_and_family.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1915-09-25"
deathDate: "1985-03-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.888770666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Herman"
    title: "Victor Herman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "فكتور هيرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Herman"
    title: "Victor Herman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Герман, Виктор Самуилович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Herman"
    title: "Victor Herman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Herman"
    title: "Victor Herman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4137220"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump