{"product_id":"palmer-polanska-zoe-yalta-victim-9781851580019","title":"Yalta Victim","description":"Perhaps the last untold story of World War Two, this is also one of the most extraordinary. Born and brought up in Russia, Zoe Polanska was just 13 when she was wrenched at gunpoint from her family by the Nazis who had over-run the region. Taken to Auschwitz, she survived the monstrous pseudo-medical experiments of the infamous Dr Josef Mengele. She was transferred to Dachau, from which she managed to escape as the Allies advanced. She found refuge in Vienna but was forced to escape again to avoid the Gestapo, and got to Italy. When victory was announced, she joined the exodus back over the Alps into Austria, where she was taken into one of the camps established for Cossacks and other Russians who had surrendered to the British as prisoners-of-war, having been members of the German forces in that they hated the Communist regime of Stalin. The forcible repatriation of these Russians as a part of the conditions of the Yalta Agreement is recorded history. Zoe Polanska was there and managed to escape. She is the first person in the West to publish a first-hand account of that shameful episode in British military and political annals. Finally, she reached Britain, where she married a Canadian whom she had met in Austria, where he was serving. Her story does not end there, however, for her family, whom she had not seen since 1943, were still in Russia. In 1961, Zoe went to Moscow, as interpreter to a company exhibiting at a Trade Fair, hoping to be able to visit her mother at the same time. Her experiences on that trip, which provide the framework of this remarkable story, read just like any thriller.","brand":"Mainstream Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53802188210518,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781851580019_1.jpg?v=1781811550","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/palmer-polanska-zoe-yalta-victim-9781851580019","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}