Babushka's journey
the dark road to Stalin's wartime camps
by Marcel Krueger
"This is the story of a grandmother, and what happened to her and to Eastern Europe in World War II. Following the tracks of his grandmother Cilly, or 'Babushka', into her vanished homeland of East Prussia and to the labor camps of the Soviet Union, Marcel Krueger has interwoven contemporary landscape and family history into an poignant and evocative travel memoir. It is the record of his grandmother's journey from the snow-covered battlefields of East Prussia in January 1945 to the Soviet labor camps in the Urals, where she spent 5 years before returning to Germany. Chasing the sights, sounds and voices of past and present along this route, the author describes two different journeys that follow the same path"--
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Concentration camps, Labor camps, Family, Travel, Forced labor, Biography, World War, 1939-1945, Women prisoners of war, Germans, History, Labor, soviet unionPeople
Marcel KruegerPlaces
Eastern Europe, Soviet UnionTimes
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Babushka's journey: the dark road to Stalin's wartime camps
2018
in English
1784538019 9781784538019
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Babushka's Journey: The Dark Road to Stalin's Wartime Camps
2017, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
in English
1786723840 9781786723840
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-222).
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