Krystyna's story / Halina Ogonowska-Coates

By:

Ogonowska-Coates, Halina [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books, 1992Description: 156 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0908912269

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Historical fiction

DDC classification:

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Cubao Branch Fiction Area	Fiction	Fic Og35k 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	132542d

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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