{"product_id":"9781633311404","title":"A Polish Girl in Siberia","description":"Author: Ida Kinalska-Pietruska\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781633311404\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Disruption Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jul 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 160 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA memoir of a child's forced relocation to Siberia under Stalin's Gulag system reveals the potential for true human kindness in the face of extraordinary hardship.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn April of 1940, six-year-old Ida woke to the sound of pounding on her door. Soviet soldiers forcibly packed her and her mother onto a train with thousands of their neighbors and deported them to remote Siberia, leaving them stranded to survive the brutal winter in subhuman conditions. Looking back, Ida shares their struggles: foraging for food, trying to reunite with her imprisoned father, spending weeks in a desolate hospital with typhoid fever, and adapting to shifts in the political climate to make the long journey home to Poland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIda published this acclaimed memoir in her native Polish in 2011. Here, Ida's granddaughter, Isabella Skrypczak, translates her babcia's words and provides additional context-including describing the remarkable life Ida has gone on to live as a pioneering doctor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the vein of Anne Frank's \u003ci\u003eThe Diary of a Young Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Polish Girl in Siberia\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles Ida's experiences on a lesser-known front of the Second World War. Together, Ida and Isabella reflect on how every small act of kindness contributed to Ida's liberation from exile and ability to build a life and a family. Her story celebrates the capacity of the human spirit to not only survive trauma but thrive beyond it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47922328633502,"sku":"ING-9781633311404","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781633311404.jpg?v=1782888819","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781633311404","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}