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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Giedroyć, Michał, 1929-     Subjects     Giedroyć, Michał, 1929-     Deportees -- Poland.     Deportees -- Soviet Union.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Polish.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Biography.     Prisoners of war -- Poland -- Biography.     Prisoners of war -- Soviet Union -- Siberia -- Biography.     Survival.     Poland -- History -- 1918-1945.     Soviet Union -- History -- 1939-1945.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Giedroyć, Michał, 1929-       by title:      Crater's edge / Mich...       by call number:      940.547247 G454c     Search the Web     Giedroyć, Michał, 1929-     Giedroyć, Michał, 1929-     Deportees -- Poland.     Deportees -- Soviet Union.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Polish.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Biography.     Prisoners of war -- Poland -- Biography.     Prisoners of war -- Soviet Union -- Siberia -- Biography.     Survival.     Poland -- History -- 1918-1945.     Soviet Union -- History -- 1939-1945.       MARC Display

Crater's edge / Michał Giedroyć ; with a preface by Norman Davies. by Giedroyć, Michał, 1929- Bene Factum Publishing, c2010. Call #: 940.547247 G454c Subjects Giedroyć, Michał, 1929-   Deportees -- Poland.   Deportees -- Soviet Union.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Polish.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Biography.   Prisoners of war -- Poland -- Biography.   Prisoners of war -- Soviet Union -- Siberia -- Biography.   Survival.   Poland -- History -- 1918-1945.   Soviet Union -- History -- 1939-1945. ISBN:  9781903071243 Alternate title:  Crater's edge : a family's epic journey through wartime Russia Description:  xii, 199 p., 8 pages of plates : ill, ports., geneal. tables ; 24 cm. Notes:  Maps on endpapers. Includes index. Summary:  "In September 1939, as a 10 year-old boy, Michal Giedroyc watched the Russian security police seize his home in Eastern Poland. His father, a senator and judge, was imprisoned while his mother, with Michal and his two sisters, were left on the streets of the local town to fend for themselves. Later they were transported in cattle trucks to the wastes of Soviet Siberia, with hundreds of thousands of other deportees. "Here, by the will of the rulers of the Soviet Empire, we were to toil and die." Eighteen months of deprivation and hunger on a collective farm brought them to the brink of extinction. Exhausted, half starved, and ill, Michal's mother and her children set off on a second grueling journey that would take them across Central Asia to Persia, the Middle East, and finally England. In one dramatic incident their survival hinged remarkably on the just two simple objects—a potato and a penknife."--p. 4 of cover. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.547247 G454c Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.547247 G454c Adult books Checked out Jul 15, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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