Description: This book takes the reader through Dr. Wlodzimierz Szer's childhood in Yiddish prewar Warsaw, adolescence and imprisonment in wartime Russia, to the brutal reality of immediate postwar Poland, and the years of the socialist regime. Although largely autobiographical, the book provides a historically and intellectually compelling analysis of the social and political situation in Poland and Soviet Russia from the early 1930s to 1967.
Review Quotes: "While Wlodzimierz Szer, exiled with his father to Siberia, had been able to lead a relatively ordinary and mostly safe existence and be spared the horrors of the Holocaust, nevertheless his is a tale of loss, sorrow and wartime ordeals. At the same time it is a story of friendships, love and family, lively and filled with optimism. An important and significant document."--Bożena Keff, PhD, writer and poet, lecturer, University of Warsaw & University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw