The Labyrinth of Dangerous Hours

A Memoir of the Second World War

Lilka Trzcinska-Croydon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

196 Seiten

2004
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-0-8020-3958-3 (ISBN)

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Lilka Trzcinska was fourteen years old when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939. The daughter of an architect, Lilka was a high school student at the time. When schools were closed by the occupier, she, along with her siblings, continued their education in secret classes, and joined the Polish Home Army-- the secret resistance force. Lilka and her family were arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and sent to the political prison Pawiak, then to Auschwitz. There, Lilka's mother died and her younger sister was sent off to another camp. The rest of the family was put to work in the camp building offices. After being transported to a number of other camps (in one instance by a way of a three-day march), the three sisters were reunited in 1945, and shortly thereafter liberated by the British. Lilka later went to Italy to continue her education, moving to Canada in 1948. The Labyrinth of Dangerous Hours is the memoir of a survivor. Lilka Trzcinska-Croydon narrates her adolescence and that of her sisters and brother in a way that binds poetry and history together seamlessly.
It describes the strength of the family ties and solidarity that help them emerge from their horrific ordeal with their dignity intact. As many as 150,000 Polish political prisoners were taken during the war, half of whom died in the camps. This memoir is a testament to their struggle.

Lilka Trzcinska-Croydon is a semi-retired child and adolescent psychoanalyst living in Toronto.

FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION
CAMP VOCABULARY
INTRODUCTION

Part I: Fighting Poland (September 1939-May 1943)
1 Dies Irae
2 Gone with the Wind
3 Resistance
4 Rescue

Part II: Auschwitz (May 1943-January 1945)
5 Nos. 44786-9
6 No Lilies for Mother
7 Gifts and Secrets
8 A Legacy of Herbs
9 High Fever
10 Designing a Dream House
11 SOS

Part III: From Winter to Spring (January-April 1945)
12 Walking to Breslau
13 Bergen-Belsen

Part IV: The Taste of Freedom (April 1945-June 1946)
14 My Egg of Resurrection
15 Concert for Survivors
16 Capriccio Italiano

EPILOGUE

ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.10.2004
Vorwort	Norman Davies
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 236 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8020-3958-8 / 0802039588
ISBN-13	978-0-8020-3958-3 / 9780802039583
Zustand	Neuware