DONNA SOLECKA URBIKAS?
(My Sister’s Mother: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin’s Siberia,?
University of?Wisconsin Press, 2016)?www.danutaurbikas.com
Writer Donna Solecka Urbikas grew up in the Midwest during the golden years of the American century. But her Polish-born mother and half-sister endured dehumanizing conditions during World War II as slave laborers in Siberia. War and exile created a profound bond between mother and older daughter, one that Donna would struggle to find with either of them. A 2016 award Finalist in the Chicago Writers Association, Society of Midland Authors, the Midwest Independent Publishers Association, her book was also a Bronze Medal winner in the Foreword INDIES competition. The author and her book have been featured on several television and radio programs.?“厂耻辫别谤产濒测?records the bitter suffering both of victims of the Soviet Gulag and of displaced emigrants.”—Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, author of?Between Nazis and Soviets.
BARBARA RYLKO-BAUER?
(A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps,?
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014)?www.rylkobauer.com
Anthropologist Barbara Rylko-Bauer interweaves personal family narrative with twentieth-century history to?present her Polish Catholic mother’s World War II experiences as a prisoner-doctor in Nazi slave labor camps, a refugee doctor in postwar Germany, and her subsequent struggles as an immigrant in the U.S. Built upon historical research and personal interviews, the story combines the mother’s voice and the daughter’s journey of rediscovering her family’s past.?Winner of the Gold Medal in the 2015 Independent Publishers Book Awards and the Foreword?搁别惫颈别飞蝉’?2014 IndieFab Book Awards, chosen as a 2015 Michigan Notable Book, and short-listed in the 2016 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.?“Through their {mother and daughter’s} incandescent collaboration, the?rough stone of memory is tumbled and polished, emerging as a fiery gem.”—Boston Review
GREG ARCHER?(Grace Revealed: A Memoir, NorLights Press, 2015)?www.gregarcher.com
Entertainment journalist Greg Archer takes a step back from Hollywood and examines his Polish family’s mind- bending odyssey of the 1940s. In the process, he exposes one of the most under-reported events of the 20th?Century:?Stalin’s mass deportation of?nearly one million Polish citizens to the Siberian Gulags, the life-shattering events that followed, and the lingering thread of Inherited Family Trauma on children of war survivors. The author and his book have been featured on CBS television, and many radio programs. "If David Sedaris and Carrie Fisher joined forces with a Polish Alex Haley, it would be this book."?—San Francisco Examiner
