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Babushka's Journey

By Marcel Krueger

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Babushka's Journey

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This is the story of a grandmother, and what happened to her and to Eastern Europe in World War II. Following the tracks of his grandmother Cilly, or 'Babushka', into her vanished homeland of East Prussia and to the labour camps of the Soviet Union, Marcel Krueger has interwoven contemporary landscape and family history into an poignant and evocative travel memoir. Babushka's Journey is the record of his grandmother's journey from the snow-covered battlefields of East Prussia in January 1945 to the Soviet labour camps in the Urals, where she spent five years before returning to Germany. Chasing the sights, sounds and voices of past and present along this route, the author describes two different journeys that follow the same path. As he stumbles through the bars of present-day Poland and dreams on the bunk beds of the Trans-Siberian railway, Krueger forges an authentic retelling of Cilly's tragic yet hopeful story, discovering that her journey reflects tens of thousands of similar personal histories, which continue to haunt Germany, Poland and Russia today. 'Marcel Krueger tells the compelling  story of his  grandmother from her life in East Prussia to her captivity in Stalin's gulag, both as voyage of discovery and through the eyes of an eye-witness. We are in his debt.' Paul Gregory, author of Women of the Gulag
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Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2017-11-10
Publication Date:
2017-11-30
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1784538019
ISBN13:
9781784538019
Weight:
399 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
221 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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