Title: Two trains from Poland
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.
Subjects: Prisoners of war, World War, 1939-1945, Soviet Prisoners and prisons, Polish Personal narratives, Children, Biography
Places: Poland
People: Krystyna M. Sklenarz (1933-2010)