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Giedroyć, Michał, 1929-
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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.
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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.
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Crater's edge / Michał Giedroyć ; with a preface by Norman Davies.
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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.
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Memoirs.
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