Stubborn Life

A memoir of the Russian occupation of Ukraine in the 1930s and the mass deportation of Poles from the region. "Not an easy read, but an important one.” — Historical Novel Society The end of the 1920s, the author’s first memory: a knock on the door and the arrest of her uncle, guilty of “anti-Soviet activities.” He is to be executed. Born in 1923, a dozen or so kilometers from the pre-war Polish-Soviet border, Franceska Michalska is a citizen of occupied Ukraine. Her family, finding a nest o