Through Continents Without a Ticket: A Memoir

...Many labels were used to describe us - deportees, slave laborers, exiles, refugees, displaced persons, immigrants. We happily answer to one - SURVIVORS.

Christine was born in southeastern Poland in the city of Halicz. When Poland was brutally attacked in 1939 by Germany from the west and Russia from the east, the Soviet government began ethnic cleansing of southeastern Poland, deporting the residents to Siberia. Christine's family was deported to Kazakhstan along with 250,000 Poles. The P...