RETIRED TO RESEARCHER TO WRITER
With time to think and perspective to reflect, local
retired educator delves into her family’s dramatic past...from Warsaw to
Siberia...from a lumbering camp in the Archangel Forest to Kyrgyzstan.
The generation of survivors
of World War II is fast coming to an end and telling its stories is becoming a
compelling need. “Baby Boomers, in
general, are expressing their need to understand who they are and where they
came from.” (Ancestry Magazine Nov. 1999)
“Who Do You Think You
Are?” a show on NBC has an audience of between 6,000,000 and
7,000,000 viewers. The Internet and
sources like Ancestry.com provide easily available resources to a hungry
audience with possibilities they never had before to seek answers to their
questions.
One local retiree went from
delving into her family’s past to writing its story, published as LOST AND
FOUND, A Family Memoir in December 2010.
It tells of escaping Warsaw under attack...deportation ... a three month
trek in cattle cars to Siberia...her birth in Kyrgyzstan. Not every Holocaust story happened in
Concentration Camps. This one included a
father fighting with partisans and a mother so desperate to have her children
survive that she threatened suicide to have them accepted at an orphanage,
where they were less likely to starve.
That book was followed by a
work of fiction, a mystery set in Poland, called POMORSKA STREET just
published. Both books are available in
print and E-book on Fastpencil.com and Amazon.com
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