Torn Lilacs
A True WWII Story of Love, Defiance and Hope
Set during the dark days of WWII Henry Michalski describes the heart-wrenching narrative of his parent’s survival. In epic cinematic, scenes the reader is transport to the vast regions of Siberia and Kazakhstan in Central Asia.
Born in the Polish town of Gostynin, Fela Kuvent was a smart, vivacious dark-eyed beauty who loved to sing, dance and enjoy life in her Jewish milieu. She met her future husband Joska Michalski, just as Nazi Germany was casting its ominous shadows across their homeland.
Over the next horrific decade Fela and her brother Kuba fled Poland on foot, evaded the Nazis, were arrested, imprisoned, released, betrayed and separated multiple times. Fela and Kuba were deported to a remote island GULAG in Siberia, and for years where slave labor for the insatiable meatgrinder.
Fela and Joska were released from their respective soviet imprisonment and beyond all probability, they miraculously found each other again.
Fela, the protagonist and heroine of Torn Lilacs is feisty, full of tenacity and integrity has an overwhelming belief that the impossible can be achieved despite insurmountable odds, and will restore your faith in the human spirit.
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