Stubborn Life: Hardship and Hope in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Poland by Michalska, Franceska

Stubborn Life: Hardship and Hope in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Poland

A memoir of theRussian occupation of Ukraine in the 1930s and the mass deportation of Polesfrom the...
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Author: Franceska Michalska
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Language: English
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Stubborn Life: Hardship and Hope in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Poland by Michalska, Franceska

Stubborn Life: Hardship and Hope in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Poland

€28,32

Stubborn Life: Hardship and Hope in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Poland

€28,32
Author: Franceska Michalska
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A memoir of the
Russian occupation of Ukraine in the 1930s and the mass deportation of Poles
from the region.

The end of the 1920s, the author's first memory: a knock on the door and the arrest of her uncle, guilty of "anti-Soviet activities." He is to be executed. Born in 1923, a dozen or so kilometers from the pre-war Polish-Soviet border, Franceska Michalska is a citizen of occupied Ukraine. Her family, finding a nest of eggs to eat, miraculously survive the great famine of 1931-32 before falling victim to growing Stalinist terror and the mass deportation of Poles from the region to Kazakhstan. All the while, Franceska dreams of studying medicine. 8,000 km and infinite difficulties later, she enters Poland and becomes a doctor, finally obtaining the Polish nationality she never had. Writing in a heartfelt yet matter-of-fact style, Michalska brilliantly evokes daily life under Russian occupation. Now more than ever, this memoir reads like a warning against history repeating, while at the same time offering a testament to human strength and to hope.



Author: Franceska Michalska
Publisher: World Editions
Published: 11/05/2024
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9781642861525

About the Author
FRANCESKA MICHALSKA was born in 1923 in Kamieniec Podolski, Ukraine. Miraculously, she survived the great famine of the era, and in 1936, when she was twelve, her family, along with thousands of Poles from pre-partition Poland, were exiled to Kazakhstan. During WWII she was sent to one of the Red Army field hospitals before being transferred to work in an orphanage. In 1941, she began medical studies in Almaty. Inching further and further west to other medical universities, first in Kharkiv, then in Chernivtsi, she finally found herself in Poland. In 1949 she graduated from medicine at the University of Wroclaw. Until her death in 2016 Michalska remained a well-known pediatrician and was visited by patients from all over the country. On April 10, 2017, she became the patron of the Care and Treatment Institute for Children and Youth in Baciki Środa. Stubborn Life was a finalist for the COGITO Literary Award 2008, and has been published in Polish and French.

SEAN GASPER BYE's translations of Polish literature have been awarded the EBRD Literature Prize and the Asymptote Close Approximations Prize. He has been a Translator-in-Residence at Princeton University, a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, and Literature and Humanities Curator at the Polish Cultural Institute New York. He lives in Philadelphia.


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