num_pages: 360
description: In this autobiography, the daughter of a persecuted Ukrainian Orthodox priest relives the Holodomor - death by starvation in which Stalin claims as many as 10 million lives in 1930s Ukraine. Vera Smereka's nightmare continues in World War II when she is deported to Berlin to become a Nazi slave in Hitler's Ostarbeiter programme. This is a piece of European history as told by a survivor who finally finds her freedom in the City of Bradford, England.
language: English
title: The Girl from Ukraine
publisher: Contraflow Media