Stubborn Life - Franceska Michalska

The end of the 1920s, the author's first memory: a knock on the door and the arrest of her uncle, guilty of 'anti-Soviet activities.' He is to be executed. Born in 1923, a dozen or so kilometers from the pre-war Polish-Soviet border, Franceska Michalska is a citizen of occupied Ukraine. Her family, finding a nest of eggs to eat, miraculously survive the great famine of 1931 32 before falling victim to growing Stalinist terror and the mass deportation of Poles from the region to Kazakhstan. All the... Zobrazit více