Two trains from Poland
Subtitle: a journey in history and of the human spirit
By: Krystyna M. Sklenarz
Publisher: Xlibris
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781456854638; 9781456854621
Subjects: Prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945; Soviet Prisoners and prisons; Polish Personal narratives; Children; Biography
Description: A midnight knock at her door changed everything for 6-year old Krystyna. A Soviet KNVD agent informed her mother that they were being deported to Siberia. Krystyna depicts the horrors of war, from two years in Siberia, to an opium den in Persia, and arriving in London to live through the Nazi Blitz. A story of survival, written sixty years after the events, detailing her refusal to give up.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: September 1939; title: Where the Devil says good-bye; title: Freedom in Hell; title: Out of the Soviet paradise; title: From the Caspian Sea to the Indian Ocean and beyond; title: Reunion; title: Retarded; title: London Blitz; title: Hatch end girls; title: Father knows best; title: "Madam" can't wait; title: God bless the Irish; title: A new beginning; title: Life in medical school, you don't need an MD degree to wash diapers; title: Graduation; title: Internship or a boot camp; title: It's not your damn business; title: Psychiatry in the trenches; title: Life with three men; title: Second train from Poland; title: Epilogue.