Ziolkowska-Boehm, Aleksandra, 1949-

Kaia, heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising / Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm. - Lanham : Lexington Books, c2012. - 195 p. 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / by Bruce E. Johansen -- Introduction: The Message of Isaac B. Singer -- Poles in Siberia -- The Szemiot-Iljin Family -- Zaysan at the Foothills of the Altaj -- 11 Months by Train from Siberia to Poland -- Poland, Bialystok -- Vilnius -- Warsaw, the 1930s -- Outbreak of the War -- Zamosc -- Warsaw under the German Occupation -- The Hubal Soldiers -- Arrest of Modest and Death in Auschwitz -- "Buzzard," a Hubal Partisan -- The Organization -- The Warsaw Uprising -- "Thank you, I have a lollipop" -- Eastbound Journey to Bialystok -- Arrest -- NKVD Camp 41 in Ostashkov -- Back from Ostashkov -- After the Return -- Marek Szymanski -- Imprisonments : the Lublin Castle and Wronki -- Released, then arrested again -- Finally, back to normal? -- Rebuilding of Warsaw -- Trips and Travels -- Poland's Attraction : Kashubia and Sudovia -- Communism in Poland -- Marek, the Loyal Hubal soldier -- Friends -- Animals and Pets -- Major Hubal's Virtuti Militari Cross -- Farewells -- Marek's Death -- Poland Independent, Poland Westernized : Fears and Anxieties -- Departing -- Appendix: Images of Siberia and Warsaw Uprising.

9780739172704 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780739172711 (electronic)

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Guerrillas--Poland--Biography.
Prisoners of war--Soviet Union--Biography.
Poles--Russia (Federation)--Siberia--Biography.


Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
Warsaw (Poland)--History--Uprising, 1944.

DK4420.I44 / Z5613 2012

940.54/213841 B