{"product_id":"krystynas-story-by-halina-ogonowska-coates","title":"Krystyna's Story by Halina Ogonowska-Coates","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"As a child I loved my mother but she seemed different from other mothers. She didn't know how old she was. She couldn't remember where she was born. I wondered what had happened to her that she could have forgotten such important things. It had something to do with the Second World War...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKrystyna is one of 732 'Polish children' who survived forced deportation to the Soviet Union and was given a home in New Zealand in 1944. Her remarkable story, a composite portrait drawn from interviews with Polish survivors, begins in a peaceful Polish village and follows her family's harrowing journey to a labor camp in Siberia, the terrible flight to freedom, and Krystyna's lonely voyage to a safe refuge in New Zealand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a beautifully evoked account of a child's journey through Europe at war, and a young woman's bewildering encounter with rural New Zealand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41896410513482,"sku":"4771y","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/4771y_ef55fac0-0354-4724-b92d-1ef3753f0a67.jpg?v=1765596516","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/krystynas-story-by-halina-ogonowska-coates","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}