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By Juliana Starosolska

Juliana Starosolska was once taken by means of the Stalinists from her mom and dad’ domestic within the western Ukrainian urban of Lviv and deported in a sealed boxcar to and primitive outpost in Siberian Kazakhstan. In girl in Exile, she files her ordeals in a chain of vignettes that catch the terrible, the humane, or even the sometimes funny facets of her adventure.

Her father used to be arrested via the Stalinists and despatched to a compelled exertions camp deep in Russian Siberia, the place he died lower than years later. within the spring of 1940, the remainder of his relations, who had remained in the back of in Ukraine—Juliana; her frail mom, Daria; and her brother, Ihor—were forcibly deported via the Soviet govt. They have been compelled to reside and paintings below the main brutally primitive and backbreaking stipulations.

After the loss of life of her mom and the reassignment of her brother to another a part of Kazakhstan, Juliana chanced on herself on my own. while international battle II ended, as a former Polish citizen, Juliana was once allowed to depart Kazakhstan for Poland in 1946. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1967, the place she resumed her journalistic and literary profession.

Now she tells the tale of these tough years—of her time as a girl in Exile.

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