My Sister''s Mother - A Memoir

Informationen zum Autor Donna Solecka Urbikas was born in Coventry, England, and immigrated with her parents and sister to Chicago in 1952. After careers as a high school science teacher and environmental engineer, she is now a writer, realtor, and community volunteer. She lives in Chicago with her husband. Klappentext An American baby boomer's searing memoir of the ordeals of her Polish mother and half sister as slave laborers in Siberia who escaped and survived, leaving a legacy of trauma to the next generation. Zusammenfassung An American baby boomer’s searing memoir of the ordeals of her Polish mother and stepsister as slave laborers in Siberia who escaped and survived, leaving a legacy of trauma to the next generation.

Product details

• Authors: Donna Solecka Urbikas
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9780299308506
• ISBN: 978-0-299-30850-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Russland, Europäische Geschichte, Memoiren, Berichte/Erinnerungen, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Biography / Autobiography, HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union