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The author was born in the village of Ryswlanka, in what was then eastern Poland, on February 10, 1940, five months after Germany and Russia invaded Poland at the start of World War II--and on the day that the summary executions and mass deportations to Siberia began. Soon the family was split and its members deported to various forced-labor camps, where they were subjected to malnutrition, epidemics, and Allied bombs. Piotrowski writes of the reign of terror foisted on the civilian population of Poland's eastern territories by the Ukrainian nationalists, who had close ties with the Nazis. The family managed to survive, Piotrowski's three sisters were repatriated, and the rest of the family (the author, his parents, and his two brothers) emigrated to the U.S. after spending five years in displaced persons camps in West Germany. Piotrowski's eloquent memoir explores the fate of the non-Semitic population of Europe during the war, complementing the memoirs and history dealing with the Jews during the Holocaust. George Cohen
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"Piotrowski's eloquent memoir explores the fate of the non-Semitic population of Europe"
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The author was born in the village of Ryswlanka, in what was then eastern Poland, on February 10, 1940, five months after Germany and Russia invaded Poland at the start of World War II--and on the day that the summary executions and mass deportations to Siberia began. Soon the family was split and its members deported to various forced-labor camps, where they were subjected to malnutrition, epidemics, and Allied bombs. Piotrowski writes of the reign of terror foisted on the civilian population of Poland's eastern territories by the Ukrainian nationalists, who had close ties with the Nazis. The family managed to survive, Piotrowski's three sisters were repatriated, and the rest of the family (the author, his parents, and his two brothers) emigrated to the U.S. after spending five years in displaced persons camps in West Germany. Piotrowski's eloquent memoir explores the fate of the non-Semitic population of Europe during the war, complementing the memoirs and history dealing with the Jews during the Holocaust. George Cohen
Booklist/RBB
"Piotrowski's eloquent memoir explores the fate of the non-Semitic population of Europe"
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