Without a Suitcase: The Story of Katie as Told to Her Son Janek (Jon)

This is my mothers story. After many years of her insistence to put down the events of her life in written word, this is the end result. Although she shares her ill-fated destiny with thousands of others, it is her personal story alone. I gathered these events from her words, as well as from napkins and scraps of paper she would write on in the middle of the night when dreams of cruelty and starvation in Siberia and the Middle East would awaken her. Her brother Tony, her sister Josephine an...