Book description
This is the story of one of the thousands of Polish Families who were deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan by the Soviets in 1940. The Glindzicz family had their roots in the Eastern Borderlands of Poland known as Kresy. The family held their lands in this region since before the…
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1 author picked A Song For Kresy as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The area of Poland that I had been researching for my own book was known as Kresy – the eastern borderlands.
The Polish family in this book had a long history of living in the region and I found the description of the life long before the Russian Revolution helpful in understanding the context and broadening my perspective on the region and its history.
The book is interspersed with photographs and illustrations that helped me to visualise the atmosphere of their privileged life that was later put into such stark contrast with the deportation to Siberia. The surviving members of…
From R. M.'s list on accounts of the Stalinist Siberian Deportations.
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