A Polish Woman S Experience In World War Ii
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A Polish Woman S Experience In World War Ii
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Author : Irena Protassewicz
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-02-07
A Polish Woman S Experience In World War Ii written by Irena Protassewicz and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-07 with History categories.
This hitherto unpublished first-hand witness account, written in 1968-9, tells the story of a privileged Polish woman whose life was torn apart by the outbreak of the Second World War and Soviet occupation. The account has been translated into English from the original Polish and interwoven with letters and depositions, and is supplemented with commentary and notes for invaluable historical context. Irena Protassewicz's vivid account begins with the Russian Revolution, followed by a rare insight into the life and mores of the landed gentry of northeastern Poland between the wars, a rural idyll which was to be shattered forever by the coming of the Second World War. Deported in a cattle truck to Siberia and sentenced to a future of forced labour, Irena's fortunes were to change dramatically after Hitler's attack on Russia. She charts the adventure and horror of life as a military nurse with the Polish Army, on a journey that would take her from the wastes of Soviet Central Asia, through the Middle East, to an unlikely ending in the highlands of Scotland. The story concludes with Irena's search to discover the wartime and post-war fate of her family and friends on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and the challenges of life as a refugee in Britain. A Polish Woman's Experience in World War II provides a compelling, personal route into understanding how the greatest conflict of the 20th century transformed the lives of the individuals who lived through it.
Krysia
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Author : Krystyna Mihulka
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2017-01-01
Krysia written by Krystyna Mihulka and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
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 struggling to survive and to understand the increasingly harsh world in which she finds herself.
Women S Experiences Of The Second World War
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Author : Mark J. Crowley
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2021
Women S Experiences Of The Second World War written by Mark J. Crowley and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with History categories.
Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War.
Communist Poland
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Author : Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-02-21
Communist Poland written by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-21 with History categories.
Communist Poland: A Jewish Woman’s Experience is the first-person account by Jewish journalist Sara Nomberg-Przytyk of surviving Auschwitz then rising to various leadership roles in the newly-formed postwar Polish Communist Party. Building a just and equitable Poland for the common Pole through communism was her dream. The reality was neither simple nor successful. Working for heavily censored newspapers and periodicals, Nomberg-Przytyk witnessed firsthand the inner workings of a communist government plagued by the same Kafkaesque bureaucracy and antisemitism that she had been certain it would fix. Her memoir provides a comprehensive account as she slowly changed from enthusiastic practitioner to witness of a system that failed her and many others. This is the first published edition of this text, originally recorded as oral testimony in Polish but translated into English by Paula Parsky, and includes a critical introduction by the co-editors, American and Polish academics Holli Levitsky and Justyna Włodarczyk, as well as extensive annotations.
Fighting And Suffering
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Author : Bogusław Kopka
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Fighting And Suffering written by Bogusław Kopka and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
The Horror Trains
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Author : Wanda E. Pomykalski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Horror Trains written by Wanda E. Pomykalski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Through The Eyes Of A Child Before During And After Wwii In Poland
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Author : Martyna Parsons
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-07-14
Through The Eyes Of A Child Before During And After Wwii In Poland written by Martyna Parsons and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-14 with categories.
Biographies and Memoirs Women: Through the Eyes of a Child Before, During and After WW2 In Poland (True Story) The present is WW2. Martyna describes in detail the images before her as she sees them. She tries to understand the horrors of life during the war. There are situations and happenings no child should have to face and see. Never the less Martyna copes as best as her young being allows, always hopeful for a better outcome. All around her hardships, deprivations and death takes its toll, but the will to survive ever present. Occasionally, the girl escapes the sad images before her and runs into the quietness and beauty of the forest where she finds solace. The climax and fighting towards the end of WWII sees Martyna and other children rob the dead bodies of German soldiers of money and jewellery. This will help the families of live, later once WW2 is over. Tags: biographies and memoirs women, biographies and memoirs of women, biographies and memoirs, history europe eastern, europe, history women in history, history eastern europe, true story, world war 2 true stories, Women Memoirs: Through the Eyes of a Child Before, During and After WW2 In Poland, Biographies and Memoirs Women, world war 2 survivors, world war 2, world war II, WW2, stories from world war 2, world war 2 stories, WWII true stories, WWII stories, WW2 stories, World War 2 stories,
Let The Angels Keep You Safe
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Author : Matthew Illaszewicz
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2011-07-12
Let The Angels Keep You Safe written by Matthew Illaszewicz and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Let the Angels Keep You Safe is based on a true World War II story about a brave and determined young Polish woman who chose her own life path, defying her parents and then evading the German and Italian armies. Cecylia Illaszewicz risked her life to be reunited with her husband who left Warsaw with secret documents on the day of the first bombings in September 1939. Cecylia or Cesia, as she was more commonly known, traveled through four war zones, survived hunger, an Italian prison and was just able to escape several bombings. She had a spirit that was unstoppable. She triumphed in the harshest conditions while overcoming great adversity, and this is her story.
Exile And Identity
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Author : Katherine R. Jolluck
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2002-09-15
Exile And Identity written by Katherine R. Jolluck and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-15 with History categories.
Using firsthand, personal accounts, and focusing on the experiences of women, Katherine R. Jolluck relates and examines the experiences of thousands of civilians deported to the USSR following the Soviet annexation of eastern Poland in 1939.Upon arrival in remote areas of the Soviet Union, they were deposited in prisons, labor camps, special settlements, and collective farms, and subjected to tremendous hardships and oppressive conditions. In 1942, some 115,000 Polish citizens—only a portion of those initially exiled from their homeland—were evacuated to Iran. There they were asked to complete extensive questionnaires about their experiences.Having read and reviewed hundreds of these documents, Jolluck reveals not only the harsh treatment these women experienced, but also how they maintained their identities as respectable women and patriotic Poles. She finds that for those exiled, the ways in which they strove to recreate home in a foreign and hostile environment became a key means of their survival.Both a harrowing account of brutality and suffering and a clear analysis of civilian experiences in wartime, Exile and Identity expands the history of war far beyond the military battlefield.
War And Resistance In The Wilderness
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Author : Donna B Gawell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-17
War And Resistance In The Wilderness written by Donna B Gawell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-17 with categories.
When the Germans invade their Polish village in September 1939 to build the largest SS training camp outside of Germany, Anna, Jozef, and Stacia must work as forced laborers serving the Reich. Then, in 1943, Hitler moves his top-secret V-2 missile research project into their wilderness area. With test missiles exploding over their homes, Anna, Jozef, her priest, and other villagers become partisans for the underground Home Army. Just as it appears the Germans are losing, Stacia finds herself inside the cattle car of a train headed to Ravensbrück, a women's concentration camp. The rest of the village bursts into chaos, and the priest who was working with the Home Army goes into hiding in the church's roof for six months to avoid arrest. The novel begins with the amazing true story of an American pilot who made a forced landing in the village in 1944, told in three later chapters. List and his crew found hidden letters addressed to America in the outhouse, and one of them was Anna's letter. It was undeliverable, and he kept it in his briefcase for forty-five years.PRAISE FOR War and Resistance in the Wilderness"As a combination of memoir and historical fiction, War and Resistance in the Wilderness pays homage to the victims and heroes of World War II and promotes knowledge about important forgotten events from the area of Niwiska in year 1939-1945. This book helps to better understand how cruel the German occupation was in Poland." -Fr. Antoni Wiech, historian "War and Resistance in the Wilderness, based on real events, places and people, is the story of villagers trapped in the pressure cooker of Nazi occupied Poland. Donna Gawell fleshes out the complexities of interpersonal relationships with a savvy understanding of Polish mores. The verity of the circumstances is enriched through an entertaining storyline that builds empathy and suspense comparable to the insecurity experienced by all villagers.She brings to life clashing viewpoints and dangerous choices. Thorough research ferments into a unique work that informs, entertains, and lights up the audacity and courage of Polish people including the many who joined the AK.This is a significant contribution to the resistance genre and a riveting read." -Talia Moser, daughter of Captain Edward List, the American pilot in the story"Based on real people, real events and a real place, War and Resistance in the Wilderness, gives us a picture of what life was like for the inhabitants of one tiny village during the darkness of the occupation of Poland by the Nazis. All too often we read of that time globally, in broad terms, but here we see the war brought home to their back yard, impacting real people on a day to day basis and through the long years of that war. Though the author's prose, I could vividly see the countryside of Poland, experience a way of life torn asunder and the very realities of war." ̶ Sophie Hodorowicz Knab, author of "Wearing the Letter P" "War and Resistance in the Wilderness is a captivating story about the villagers of the parish of Niwiska, before, during, and after World War II. It describes their daily joys, struggles, faith, and commitment to their beloved Poland during the dark days of war time Poland."̶ Valerie S. Koselka, President of the Polish Genealogical Society Based on a clever reconstruction of historical events and documents, the book conveys a sense of the tragedy experienced by its chosen protagonists. In doing so, it restores a measure of dignity to the 'little people' inhabiting provincial Poland, who faced unprecedented moral dilemmas and whose lives were forever changed by the war." ̶ Tomasz Frydel, University of Toronto and Fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, DC.