Between Two Evils: The World War II Memoir of a Girl in Occupied Warsaw and a Nazi Labor Camp

by Lucyna B. Radlo

Overview

This vivid memoir describes the author's experiences as young girl in Poland, forced to flee to Warsaw after the Nazi bombing of Brest at the outbreak of World War II. She recounts the realities of life in occupied Poland, including the arrest by the Gestapo of her father and his death soon after in Auschwitz, the family's participation in the black market and the Warsaw Uprising, and her capture and incarceration with her mother in a forced labor camp. Once released from the camp, they joined their Russian relatives in Austria only to quickly leave with them to avoid approaching Soviet forces, experiencing a month-long, often comical journey on an ox-driven cart back to the U.S. zone of Germany.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786440320
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	12/12/2008
Pages:	267
Sales rank:	806,883
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Lucyna B. Radlo is a retired U.S. government employee and lives in Santa Barbara, California.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface     
1. War: Choosing Between Two Evils     
2. Flashbacks     
Life at Krasnyy Dvor     
1914–1918     
Vyazma     
Return to Brest     
Life in Brest, 1921     
1931–1936     
Brest, 1936–1939     
Brest, 1939, on the Eve of World War II     
3. Occupied Warsaw     
4. Coping with Daily Life     
5. Father Dies in Auschwitz     
6. My Father, Feliks Stanislaw Kucharski     
7. Handel (Black Marketing)     
8. Warsaw Uprising, August 1, 1944     
9. Forced Labor Camp     
10. Kleine Maria Zell, Austria     
11. Flight from the Soviets     
12. Via Oxcart to Regensburg     
13. Back to School     
14. Obshchina     
15. “Save Me, Tante Luzie!”     
16. Live Fish and Dead Bones     
17. “Quanta la Gusta”     
18. A Girl’s Best Friend     
19. America Bound!     
20. Nazareth     
21. Little Russia, New Jersey     
22. Work in the City     
23. 1528 Second Avenue, New York City     
24. Getting to Know the Radlos     
25. Elizabeth Kucharska, My Mother     
26. Married Life Begins     

Appendix: Who’s Who in the Extended Romenko-Kovenko Family     
Index