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between two evils the world war ii memoir of a girl in occupied warsaw and a nazi labor camp
this vivid memoir describes the authors experiences as young girl in poland forced to flee to warsaw after the nazi bombing of brest at the outbreak of world war ii . she recounts the realities of life in occupied poland including the arrest by the gestapo of her father and his death soon after in auschwitz the familys participation in the black market and the warsaw uprising and her capture and incarceration with her mother in a forced labor camp . once released from the camp they joined their russian relatives in austria only to quickly leave with them to avoid approaching soviet forces experiencing a month long often comical journey on an ox driven cart back to the u.s. zone of germany .
paperback mcfarland & co inc pub 2008 isbn13 9780786440320 isbn10 0786440325
book type nf isbn 13 9780786440320 number of pages 259 publisher mcfarland & co inc pub release date 62135769600000