Escape into danger : the true story of a Kievan girl in World War II / / Sophia Orlovsky Williams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825318503321
• Autore: Williams Sophia <1924->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-36232-5; 9786613362322; 1-4422-1470-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.53/4777092; B
• Soggetti: World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945 - Ukraine; Ukrainian Americans; Ukraine History German occupation, 1941-1944; Ukraine Biography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Spring of youth -- pt. 2. The steppes aflame -- pt. 3. German occupation -- pt. 4. Eye of the hurricane -- pt. 5. Inside Nazi Germany -- pt. 6. Postwar Germany.
• Sommario/riassunto: Escape into Danger tells the remarkable true story of a young girl's perilous adventures and coming-of-age during World War II. Only seventeen when Germany invaded Russia in 1941, Sophia left her native Kiev, unwittingly escaping the Babi Yar massacre. On her journey into Russia, she fled from flooding, dodged fires and bombs, and fell in love. At Stalingrad, Sophia turned back in a futile attempt to return home to her mother. Stranded in a Nazi-occupied town, accepted as a Russian, she found work with a sympathetic German officer and felt secure until a local girl recognized her as a Jew. Wit