Intertwining the fate of a country with the life of one Polish family, the book is based on extensive oral accounts of actual participants and on many documents released only in Polish and never before available in English, including original Auschwitz letters and Nazi exhumation documents.

“The author offers a masterful rendering of the War’s impact on the life of one young woman and her family, while at the same time telling their stories in connection with the larger, practically unknown, saga of the destruction of the independent Polish state, and its people’s desperate and heroic resistance to Nazi and Soviet domination.” - Prof. Donald F. Pienkos, University of Wisconsin , Milwaukee

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