Chapter 1 - family background and early
childhood
Chapter 2 - The difficult years 1927-30; description
of the summer vacation villages Niemen, Novojelnia and Druskieniki
Chapter 3 - Father established as stomatologist;
end of high school, start of university
Chapter 4 - A trip across Europe on the eve
of WWII, year of medical school in France
Chapter 5 - Summer 1939; antisemitic outbreaks
in Poland
Chapter 6 - September 1939; the German invasion
& Soviet take-over
Chapter 7 - Life under the Soviets;
refugees flee to Lida, people leave secretly
Chapter 8 - early 1940: Father arrested &
sent to Gulag; daughters apply to medical school
Chapter 9 - 1940: medical school in Minsk
Chapter 10 - Germany invades Russia.
June 21, 1940: Minsk bombed, the sisters flee east
Chapter 11 - Arrival in Kazakhstan, life
on a collective farm, Father freed from Gulag in amnesty, elects to stay
Chapter 12 - Father sends for daughters,
who receive permit to travel. A 1941 letter from their mother
Chapter 13 - the trip north to Izma Gulag
Chapter 14 - 1941-1942; Life in Izma Gulag;
Sam
Chapter 15 - the sisters resume medical school
in Yaroslavl
Chapter 16 - 1943-1944; the year in medical
school; summer vacation
Chapter 17 - 1944-46; transfer to medical
school in Tashkent & move there; sister Ella marries, family prepares
return to Poland
Chapter 18 - the trip back to Poland
Chapter 19 - Marriage, settling in Krakow,
completing studies, births of children, life in Poland
Chapter 20 - 1957: Death of Father
Chapter 21 - Leaving Poland
Chapter 22 - the trip to France, life in
France
Chapter 23 - 1958; trip to Israel
Chapter 24 - arrival in US, training in order
to obtain MD license in US
Chapter 25 - life in the US to 1983
Map of the places mentioned in the
work. The underlying map is courtesy of the Perry-Castaneda
Collection at the University of Texas. Places mentioned &
already on the map have had their initial letters colored green.
Green dots label other places. Because this map lacks a latitude
& longitude grid, positions are only approximate. To locate them
more accurately on other maps, there's a table of
latitude & longitude for the smaller places.
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