TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ogonowska-Coates,Halina
TI  - Krystyna's story
SN  - 0908912269
U1  - Fic 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Wellington, New Zealand
PB  - Bridget Williams Books
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Prisoners and prisons, Russian
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Children
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 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 labor camp in Siberia, the terrible flight to freedom, and Krystyna's lonely voyage to a safe refuge in New Zealand. This is a beautifully evoked account of a child's journey through Europe at war, and a young woman's bewildering encounter with rural New Zealand
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