Between Two Evils

The World War II Memoir of a Girl in Occupied Warsaw and a Nazi Labor Camp

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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This vivid memoir describes the author's experiences as young girl in Poland, forced to flee to Warsaw after the Nazi bombing of Brest at the outbreak of World War II. She recounts the realities of life in occupied Poland, including the arrest by the Gestapo of her father and his death soon after in Auschwitz, the family's participation in the black market and the Warsaw Uprising, and her capture and incarceration with her mother in a forced labor camp. Once released from the camp, they joined their Russian relatives in Austria only to quickly leave with them to avoid approaching Soviet forces, experiencing a month-long, often comical journey on an ox-driven cart back to the U.S. zone of Germany.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-12-12
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt358 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor267
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786440320

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Table of ContentsPreface 1. War: Choosing Between Two Evils 2. Flashbacks Life at Krasnyy Dvor 1914–1918 Vyazma Return to Brest Life in Brest, 1921 1931–1936 Brest, 1936–1939 Brest, 1939, on the Eve of World War II 3. Occupied Warsaw 4. Coping with Daily Life 5. Father Dies in Auschwitz 6. My Father, Feliks Stanislaw Kucharski 7. Handel (Black Marketing) 8. Warsaw Uprising, August 1, 1944 9. Forced Labor Camp 10. Kleine Maria Zell, Austria 11. Flight from the Soviets 12. Via Oxcart to Regensburg 13. Back to School 14. Obshchina 15. “Save Me, Tante Luzie!” 16. Live Fish and Dead Bones 17. “Quanta la Gusta” 18. A Girl’s Best Friend 19. America Bound! 20. Nazareth 21. Little Russia, New Jersey 22. Work in the City 23. 1528 Second Avenue, New York City 24. Getting to Know the Radlos 25. Elizabeth Kucharska, My Mother 26. Married Life Begins Appendix: Who’s Who in the Extended Romenko-Kovenko Family Index