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Filip Müller came to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942 and began working in the gassing installations and crematoria in May. He was still alive when the gassings ceased in November 1944. He saw millions come and disappear, by sheer luck he survived. Müller is neither a historian nor a psychologist, he is a source, one of the few prisoners who saw the Jewish people die and lived to tell about it. Eyewitness...
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I was only sixteen when my family and I were pulled away from our home and country. My name is Alicja (Moskaluk) Edwards. I was born and raised in Poland and now am 77 years old. For the last 17 years I have been writing a story, or rather memoirs of my familys imprisonment in the Soviet Union during World War II, in Stalins bloody era. We were forcibly taken from our home in the eastern part of Poland to the Asiatic state of Kazachstan, where we...
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Describes the four-thousand-mile journey across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas of seven men who escaped from a Siberian prison camp. The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.
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"Davies draws from years of meticulous research to recount the compelling story of this unit, the Polish II Corps or 'Anders Army', and their exceptional journey from the Gulag of Siberia through Iran, the Middle East and North Africa to the battlefields of Italy to fight shoulder-to-shoulder with Allied forces"--Amazon.com.
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Describes the four-thousand-mile journey across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas of seven men who escaped from a Siberian prison camp. The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.
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"Autor był małym chłopcem, gdy w maju 1940 roku wraz z matką i rodzeństwem deportowano go na sowiecką Syberię. Jego ojciec, oficer Wojska Polskiego, wzięty do niewoli przez Armię Czerwoną, zginął jako jedna z tysięcy ofiar zbrodni katyńskiej. Rozdzielenie rodziny i wysiedlenie zapoczątkowało dziesięcioletnią tułaczkę. Skrajnie trudne warunki życia w Kazachstanie, głód, karkołomna ucieczka z ZSRR, śmierć matki, obozy dla uchodźców,...
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"Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian governments have only recently admitted culpability. Standing in the shadow of the Holocaust, this episode of European history is often overlooked. Wesley Adamczyk's memoir, When God Looked the Other Way, now gives voice to the hundreds of thousands...
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