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Escape from Siberia, Escape from Memory: An Odyssey Across Two Oceans & Nine Countries to Arrive Home

Escape from Siberia, Escape from Memory: An Odyssey Across Two Oceans & Nine Countries to Arrive Home

          
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Paul Wojdak's father, Pawel, was born in 1912 in Novosibirsk, Siberia. During the 1800s, many Polish people were banished to Siberia for rising against czarist Russia's repressive policies aimed to destroy Polish language and culture, and they eventually lived in Siberia for generations. By the 1920s, war and chaos followed the Russian Revolution, and Poles were cast as "enemies of the people," fleeing east as refugees. Most died from disease, starvation, cold, or violence, including Pawel's parents, and many Polish children were tragically trapped in Siberia-a seven-year-old Pawel among them.

Later in life, living in Canada with his wife and son, Pawel physically could not speak about his childhood and refused to speak about his life as a young adult, but his memories were sometimes triggered by chance events, leaving mysterious tidbits for his son, Paul. Why could his father sing the Japanese national anthem? How did he come to see a tractor as a young boy in the United States?

Inspired by his love for his father combined with a desire to understand Pawel's complicated life, after his father's death, Paul takes on the daunting task of trying to piece together his father's past, determined to uncover the truth in the hopes of learning the story of a man who, despite all his hardships, was respectful, loyal, dedicated, and loving.

Only knowing bits and pieces of his father's childhood and knowing his father fought in World War II, Paul begins by connecting his father's story with the stories of other Polish children and men in Siberia and Eastern Europe from 1917 to 1945. From there, he brings to light the remarkable story of the Polish Rescue Committee and their plight to rescue Polish children in Siberia after World War I and of the compassion of the Japanese people in harbouring these children. Following records of his father's trail, he shares the incredible journey these children then took before finally arriving in Poland in late 1922, only to find their lives in upheaval again in 1939, when Poland was invaded by Russia and Germany.

Escape from Siberia, Escape from Memory not only shares an extraordinary story of heroism and survival, but also explores the struggle to recapture and preserve cultural and personal memory and the impact of war on children and young adults.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781039196865
  • Publisher: Friesenpress
  • Publisher Imprint: FriesenPress
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 342
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 616 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1039196861
  • Publisher Date: 22 Apr 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: An Odyssey Across Two Oceans & Nine Countries to Arrive Home
  • Width: 152 mm


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