Exile from Latvia: My WWII Childhood - From Survival to Opportunity
Russians storm into Riga. Harry (9) flees facing starvation and arduous travel. The true story sweeps readers into first-person escapades of a child looking for answers in a senseless world.
Russians storm into Riga. Harry (9) flees facing starvation and arduous travel. The true story sweeps readers into first-person escapades of a child looking for answers in a senseless world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781425134006 (1425134009)
Publish date: November 16th 2007
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Pages no: 316
Edition language: English
Latvia.A self-published memoir that, while not well-written or literary, is an interesting and useful narrative of Kapeikis's family's flight from Latvia to Germany, then through two DP camps to the US. I don't read many non-Jewish autobiographies of this sort, so it was useful for comparison, if so...