Journey To Polonia
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Journey To Polonia
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Author : Geraldine Prusko
language : en
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Release Date : 2015-10-12
Journey To Polonia written by Geraldine Prusko and has been published by Dog Ear Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-12 with Fiction categories.
Investigating her family history helps a teenager heal after a brutal attack. Olivia, 17, becomes the victim of a rape by someone she knows on her way home from school. Unwilling to face her classmates, she turns to her extended family while she heals, listening to stones about their journeys from Poland in the late 19th century. Her grandmother's story touches her deeply. She hears about Albert and Sara, who leave for America just one step ahead of revenue agents; Peter and Ursula, who dream of a land without oppression; and Francis and Anna, who emigrate rather than endure rule by the Russians, even though Anna was forced to travel alone. Listening to their stories brings strength to Olivia, who learns of their courage in creating new lives. Set in the 1960s, the novel also highlights the history of Poland in the 1800s, when it existed mainly in the minds of its people because the country did not exist from 1795 to 1918. Without a homeland to call their own, immigrants to the United States had to claim Germany, Russia or Austria as their native country, and more than a million did so in that timeframe. Like Olivia's ancestors, they found community in neighborhoods and Roman Catholic churches that spoke their language and followed Polish customs. Journey to Polonia echoes the author's own family history of immigrants and will resonate with anyone who has taken a chance on a better way of life.
Journey To Poland
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Author : Alfred Döblin
language : en
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
Release Date : 1991
Journey To Poland written by Alfred Döblin and has been published by Paragon House Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Authors, German categories.
The Journey To Poland
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Author : Michal Govrin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Journey To Poland written by Michal Govrin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Children of Holocaust survivors categories.
Journey To Poland
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Author : David S. Greenfield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Journey To Poland written by David S. Greenfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
Two Trains From Poland
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Author : Krystyna M. Sklenarz, MD
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2011-02-26
Two Trains From Poland written by Krystyna M. Sklenarz, MD and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
There were countless shocking accounts of WWII experiences portraying sufferings of innocent civilian victims. In the U.S., most of them focused on Nazi-German atrocities, victims of Holocaust but much fewer on the Soviet Union, a Nazi - German partner in crime, whose offences were whitewashed or underreported. “Two trains from Poland” is a beautiful and moving story, almost epical account of a little, 6 years old Polish girl from an upper middle class, father a lawyer; mother a university graduate, very literate housewife, a three year old sister and grandparents living nearby. It is a story of survival written 60 years after the events. A midnight knock at her door changed everything for a 6 year old Krystyna Sklenarz. In the middle of the night, a Soviet NKWD (KGB) agent informed her mother that that they are being deported from Poland to Siberia. When asked by her terrified and anxious mother for more details regarding their final destination, the NKWD officer coolly retorted “you are going to where the devil says goodbye”, an old Russian saying needing no further amplification. In her memoirs, Krystyna depicts horror of war from occupation by hostile powers, two years in Siberia, starvation, typhus, life threatening illness in a foreign and hostile country, void of rudimental sanitation and medication, shuttered and disrupted family life, death of her younger sister, an opium den in Persia, mingled with the native aristocracy, learned to speak Farsi, being torpedoed near South Africa, and the arriving in London to live through the Nazi Blitz in the London subway and talking briefly to the Queen. Through it all, Krystyna refused to give up. This is her story this is her journey from the Siberian wasteland, through her struggle to achieve education in a foreign language in only five years, to her entrance into medical school at only 17. The palette of her life has many hues some bright, some dark and hopeless, others funny. Events happened in her life which at times tested credulity. In Teheran in 1942, she was a guest on several occasions in the home of the Shah’s relative and in London, the Queen spoke to her a few words. Krystyna recounts all of this in this tale of courage and perseverance, discussing her stubborn refusal to allow the Nazis or Soviets to defeat her and recounts her later journey and struggles as a female striving to be a doctor when women weren’t supposed to be doctors. The surviving little girl grew up and became a principled and caring woman, whose life taught her self-reliance and dismissed outright any dependence on immediate relief of stress or adversity by artificial intervention through counseling, support groups, drugs legal or illegal, the devises many rely on in our society used to relieve stress and life disappointments. Doctor Sklenarz was an extraordinary woman weathering life in Soviet imprisonment , in exile , in then man-dominated field of medicine, winning admiration of her peers, patients, acquiesces, and love of the entire family scattered through the world.. Through out the entire fourteen months of struggle with painful terminal cancer, Krystyna was true to her character and principles, bearing her fate with dignified stoicism, endurance and without complaints. With her attention to detail and vivid recollection of events, Krystyna takes the reader through a remarkable journey in history and of the human spirit.
To Poland In War Time
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Author : Joseph Conrad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
To Poland In War Time written by Joseph Conrad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1915 with Poland categories.
Journey To Poland
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Author : Maurizio Cinquegrani
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-02
Journey To Poland written by Maurizio Cinquegrani and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-02 with Performing Arts categories.
Journey to Poland addresses crucial issues of memory and history in relation to the Holocaust as it unfolded in the territories of the Second Polish Republic.
To Poland In War Time
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Author : Joseph Conrad
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-12-02
To Poland In War Time written by Joseph Conrad and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-02 with Fiction categories.
Excerpt from To Poland in War-Time: A Journey Into the East For reasons which at first seemed to me some what obscure, that one of my companions whose. Wishes are law decided that our travels should begin in an unusual way by the crossing of the North Sea. We should proceed from Harwich to Hamburg. Besides being 36 times longer than the dover-calais passage this rather unusual route had an air of adventure in better keeping with the romantic feeling of this Polish journey, which for so many years had been before us in a state of a project full of colour and promise, but always retreating, elusive, like an enticing mirage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Poland
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Author : Ryszard Bryzek
language : pl
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Poland written by Ryszard Bryzek and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Poland categories.
Travels Through Part Of The Russian Empire And The Country Of Poland
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Author : Robert Johnston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1815
Travels Through Part Of The Russian Empire And The Country Of Poland written by Robert Johnston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1815 with Poland categories.