Krystyna's Story

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Emigration & Immigration, History, Asian, Russia, Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book Krystyna's Story by Halina Ogonowska-Coates, Penguin Random House New Zealand
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Author: Halina Ogonowska-Coates ISBN: 9781775531418
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Publication: December 1, 2015
Imprint: RHNZ Adult ebooks Language: English
Author: Halina Ogonowska-Coates
ISBN: 9781775531418
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand
Publication: December 1, 2015
Imprint: RHNZ Adult ebooks
Language: English

A piecing together of a Polish child's journey through Europe at war, and a young woman's bewildering encounter with rural New Zealand.*'As a child I loved my mother but she seemed different from other mothers. She didn't know how old she was. She couldn't remember where she was born. I wondered what had happened to her that she could have forgotten such important things. It had something to do with the Second World War . . . '*Krystyna is one of 732 'Polish children' who survived forced deportation to the Soviet Union and was given a home in New Zealand in 1944. Her remarkable story, a composite portrait drawn from interviews with Polish survivors, begins in a peaceful Polish village and follows her family's harrowing journey to a labour camp in Siberia, the terrible flight to freedom, and Krystyna's lonely voyage to a safe refuge in New Zealand.

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A piecing together of a Polish child's journey through Europe at war, and a young woman's bewildering encounter with rural New Zealand.*'As a child I loved my mother but she seemed different from other mothers. She didn't know how old she was. She couldn't remember where she was born. I wondered what had happened to her that she could have forgotten such important things. It had something to do with the Second World War . . . '*Krystyna is one of 732 'Polish children' who survived forced deportation to the Soviet Union and was given a home in New Zealand in 1944. Her remarkable story, a composite portrait drawn from interviews with Polish survivors, begins in a peaceful Polish village and follows her family's harrowing journey to a labour camp in Siberia, the terrible flight to freedom, and Krystyna's lonely voyage to a safe refuge in New Zealand.

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