Przezylismy ... : pamietnik z zeslania 1939-1942

Przezylismy ... : pamietnik z zeslania 1939-1942

Diary; Labor camps; World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives; Poland - Social conditions - 1918-1945

This work is a transcription of the handwritten diary of Elzbieta Pawlicka-Frankowska. It is written in Polish. It chronicles her family's exile from Poland during World War II and their move to a labor camps in Siberia. Elzbieta's father was killed when the Soviets invaded Poland. Her mother and siblings were forced to move to the North Ural area and work in a labor camp. Recorded in the diary are events that happened in the labor camp; stories of survival and hardships that the family faced; and later, a telling of how the family was moved to varioius locations and where they came to settle at the end of the interment. (In her adult years, Elzbieta Pawlicka-Frankowska, known in the United States as Elizabeth Pawlicki-Frankowski or Elizabeth Frankowski, has been a longtime resident of Toledo, Ohio.) "Tears of Faith" is the title of the English translation of the diary.

Pawlicka-Frankowska, Elzbieta,|d1926

1942

Polish

Siberia (Russia)