Ebook: Shallow Graves in Siberia
Author: Krupa Michael
- Tags: Prisoners of war--Russia, World War 1939-1945, World War 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons Russian, Prisoners of war--Poland, Prisoners of war, Personal narratives, Krupa Michael, World War 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives Polish, World War 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons Russian, Prisoners of war -- Russia, Prisoners of war -- Poland, Poland, Russia
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Birlinn
- City: London;Poland;Russia
- Language: English
- epub
Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Map; Introduction; Chapter One: Polish Highlander; Chapter Two: Jesuits; Chapter Three: Life in the Monastery; Chapter Four: The Escape; Chapter Five: The Army; Chapter Six: The Search; Chapter Seven: Encounter with the Soviet Authorities; Chapter Eight: The Journey; Chapter Nine: The Lubianka; Chapter Ten: The Journey to Pechora Lager; Chapter Eleven: Pechora Camp; Chapter Twelve: Escapes and Punishments; Chapter Thirteen: A New Career; Chapter Fourteen: The Escape; Chapter Fifteen: A Continuing Journey; Chapter Sixteen: Execution.;Michael Krupa was born into a poor family in south-west Poland, and in his teens was accepted into a Jesuit seminary. He ran away before taking his final vows and joined the army. Soon afterwards, the German tanks rolled into Poland and easily defeated her antiquated forces the Polish cavalry were armed with sabres. Krupa survived Hitler's invasion, but was arrested in Soviet-occupied eastern Poland and accused of spying. After enduring torture in Moscow's notorious Lubianka prison, he was sentenced to ten years' corrective labour and deported to the Pechora Gulag. Most prisoners there were w.
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