I couldn’t stop reading it and finished in one day. Now I’m passing it
to my 9-year-old daughter.
Chicago Review Press, Jan 1, 2017
"Few people are aware that in the aftermath of German and Soviet
invasions and division of Poland, more than 1.5 million people were deported
from their homes in Eastern Poland to remote parts of Russia. Half of them died
in labor camps and prisons or simply vanished, some were drafted into the
Russian army, and a small number returned to Poland after the war. Those who
made it out of Russia alive were lucky--and nine-year-old Krystyna Mihulka was
among them. In this childhood memoir, Mihulka tells of her family's
deportation, under cover of darkness and at gunpoint, and their life as
prisoners on a Soviet communal farm in Kazakhstan, where they endured
starvation and illness and witnessed death for more than two years. This untold
history is revealed through the eyes of a young girl …”
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