Where are we going?
By: by Miriam Finder Tasini
Publisher: Gordian Knot Books; Distributed by University Press of New England
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York; Hanover, [NH]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781884092824
Subjects: Jews; World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Polish Jews; Polish Personal narratives; Personal narratives; Biography
Description: "In this action-packed memoir that reads like a novel, the author graphically recounts how she and her family narrowly escaped from Krakow, Poland, in 1939, just ahead of the advancing Nazi invaders, when the author was only three years old.  After surviving imprisonment in a Siberian Gulag work camp and near-death illness and starvation on their courageous and harrowing three-and-a-half-year odyssey through Russia, Uzbekistan, Persia, and the Nazi submarine-infested Indian Ocean, they finally secured freedom in Palestine in 1943"--Cover.