Author : Dorit Bader Whiteman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 2008-08-30
Category :
ISBN : 9780841914544
Through the dramatic true story of one boy-Eliott ""Lonek"" Jaroslawicz-Dorit Bader Whiteman coveys the stories of the dramatic escape of thousands of Polish Jews from the encroaching Nazi menace. Whiteman draws on hours of interviews with Jaroslawicz, as well as extensive archival and other research, to narrate this saga of the only Kindertransport to leave from Russia.
Author : Dorit Bader Whiteman
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,12 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"A short-lived treaty between the Polish Government-in-Exile and the Soviet Government allows for the miraculous release of approximately one hundred thousand Polish citizens, including Lonek's family. They make their way from Siberia to Tashkent, only to find that life there is harsh - hunger and sickness abound. When his father falls ill, Lonek's mother is driven to despair and leaves her ten-year-old son on the doorstep of an orphanage.".
Author : Sven Christensen
Publisher :
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780738848679
”Escape from Siberia” is a story set in contemporary Russia at the time of the unsuccessful attempt to remove Gorbachev from power by the reactionary forces against glasnost and perestroika. The novel’s main characters are an American geologist, a beautiful Russian woman and a Russian Colonel. The main plot consists of a relentless pursuit of the American and Russian woman through the Far Eastern tundra and taiga, as well as the western part of the Soviet Union by the jealous and possessive colonel. Their mode of transportation involves boat, truck, a reindeer team, skis, and finally a train. On their way the American and the woman encounter adventures with wolves, bears, and ferocious Siberian blizzards. The couple also meets many helpful and generous people while the American is being introduced to Russian customs, folk music and native foods. As far as their own relationship is concerned, they were attracted to each other from the day they met. Bound by fate and peril, a deep love develops between them that endures and conquers all hardships, until...?
Author : Josef M. Bauer
Publisher : Constable
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1780332866
Originally published in 1955, this must be one of the most dramatic adventures of our time. Clemens Forell, a German soldier, was sentenced to 25 years of forced labour in a Siberian lead mine after the Second World War. Rebelling against the brutality of the camp, Forell staged a daring escape, enduring an 8000-mile journey across the trackless wastes of Siberia, in some of the most treacherous and inhospitable conditions on earth. Bauer's writing brilliantly evokes Forell's desperation in the prison camp, and his struggle for survival and terror of recapture as he makes his way towards the Persian frontier and freedom.
Author : Ruth Yaffe Radin
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,43 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Children and war
ISBN : 9780060285210
A young Jewish girl living with her family in the town of Lida at the beginning of World War II recalls the horrors of life under first the Russians then the Nazis, before fleeing to join Tuvia Bielski, a partisan who tried to save as many Jews as possible. Based on a true story.
Author : Slavomir Rawicz
Publisher : LP, Lyons Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781493022618
The harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.
Author : Sophia Orlovsky Williams
Publisher :
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 17,41 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Ukrainian Americans
ISBN : 9781442214699
Escape into Danger tells the remarkable true story of a young girl's perilous adventures and coming-of-age during World War II. Only seventeen when Germany invaded Russia in 1941, Sophia left her native Kiev, unwittingly escaping the Babi Yar massacre. On her journey into Russia, she fled from flooding, dodged fires and bombs, and fell in love. At Stalingrad, Sophia turned back in a futile attempt to return home to her mother. Stranded in a Nazi-occupied town, accepted as a Russian, she found work with a sympathetic German officer and felt secure until a local girl recognized her as a Jew. Wit.
Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 2005-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 055389935X
“For sheer adventure L’Amour is in top form.”—Kirkus Reviews Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L’Amour’s hallmark. It is the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian forebears to survive the vast Siberian wilderness. Only one route lies open to Mack: the path of his ancestors, overland to the Bering Strait and across the sea to America. But in pursuit is a legendary tracker, the Yakut native Alekhin, who knows every square foot of the icy frontier—and who knows that to trap his quarry he must think like a Sioux.
Author : Mark Edele
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 081434268X
This pioneering volume will interest scholars of eastern European history and Holocaust studies, as well as those with an interest in refugee and migration issues.
Author : James Meek
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1847673759
1919, Siberia . . . Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. One night a stranger, Samarin, appears from the woods with a tale of escape from an Arctic prison, insisting a cannibal is on his trail. Only Anna, a beautiful young widow, trusts his story. When a local shaman is found dead suspicion and terror engulf the isolated community, which harbours a secret of its own . . .
