Unlock The Secrets Of A Polish Woman’s Experience In World War II: Conflict, Deportation And Exile Brought To You By Irena Protassewicz File Format Publication Copy

would highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to know about Cth Polish history, Irena lived through some very big changes, and viewing them through her eyes offered some great insight into multiple issues surrounding war, occupation, emigration, integration, and so much more.
This hitherto unpublished firsthand witness account, written in, tells the story of a privileged Polish woman whose life was torn apart by the outbreak of the Second World War and Soviet occupation.
The account has been translated into English from the original Polish and interwoven with letters and depositions, and is supplemented with commentary and notes for invaluable historical context.


Irena Protassewicz's vivid account begins with the Russian Revolution, followed by a rare insight into the life and mores of the landed gentry of northeastern Poland between the wars, a rural idyll which was to be shattered forever by the coming of the Second World War.
Deported in a cattle truck to Siberia and sentenced to a future of forced labour, Irena's fortunes were to change dramatically after Hitler's attack on Russia.
She charts the adventure and horror of life as a military nurse with the Polish Army, on a journey that would take her from the wastes of Soviet Central Asia, through

the Middle East, to an unlikely ending in the highlands of Scotland.
The story concludes with Irena's search to discover the wartime and postwar fate of her family and friends on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and the challenges of life as a refugee in Britain.


A Polish Woman's Experience in World War II provides a compelling, personal route into understanding how the greatest conflict of theth century transformed the lives of the individuals who lived through it.
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