TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mihulka,Krystyna
AU  - Goddu,Krystyna Poray
TI  - Krysia: a Polish girl's stolen childhood during World War II 
SN  - 9781613734421 (pdf)
AV  - D811.5 
U1  - 940.53 MIH 23
KW  - Mihulka, Krystyna,
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Personal narratives, Polish
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Girls
KW  - Poland
KW  - Lwów
KW  - Biography
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Deportations from Poland
KW  - Prisoners and prisons, Soviet
KW  - Collective farms
KW  - Kazakhstan
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Forced labor
KW  - Refugees
KW  - JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Women
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Historical
KW  - JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Europe
KW  - Lwów (Poland)
N1  - Map: Krysia's Journey (1940-1942) -- A Polish Pronunciation and Vocabulary Guide -- Author's Note -- Prologue -- Part One: The End of Life As We Knew It -- Hints of Impending War -- The Last Autumn of Peace -- Strangers in the Sky -- Life Under Russian Occupation -- Shadows in the Night -- Part Two: Journey into Captivity -- Traveling by Cattle Car -- Traveling by Ox Cart -- Part Three: Life in Captivity -- Settling In -- Strange Happenings at Night -- Enduring the Winter -- Spring and Summer Surprises -- Part Four: Flight to Freedom -- Reunion and Departure -- A Seemingly Endless Wait -- The Trans-Siberian Train Journey -- Tragedy Strikes Home -- Setting Sail for Freedom -- Afterword -- Epilogue -- A Guide to Geographical Names; Ages 10 to 13
N2  - "Few people are aware that in the aftermath of German and Soviet invasions and division of Poland, more than 1.5 million people were deported from their homes in Eastern Poland to remote parts of Russia. Half of them died in labor camps and prisons or simply vanished, some were drafted into the Russian army, and a small number returned to Poland after the war. Those who made it out of Russia alive were lucky--and nine-year-old Krystyna Mihulka was among them. In this childhood memoir, Mihulka tells of her family's deportation, under cover of darkness and at gunpoint, and their life as prisoners on a Soviet communal farm in Kazakhstan, where they endured starvation and illness and witnessed death for more than two years. This untold history is revealed through the eyes of a young girl struggling to survive and to understand the increasingly harsh world in which she finds herself"--
ER  -