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Teresa Mikosz-Hintzke, Six Years 'till Spring: A Polish Family's Odsssey. San
Jose. Author's Choice Press, 2001. Pp. 336.
The Odssey starts 1939 in north-western Poland near the German border. The
head of the family, a Polish cavalry officer, gets wounded and captured by
the Germans and spends six years in different camps or compounds. The other
members of the family flee eastwards, are separated and suffer different
kinds of deprivation. Their Odyssey lasts six years, encompasses eight
countries and three continents and ends up in the USA.
This book is a saga of wartime separation and suffering familiar to
thousands, even millions, of Poles. Mikosz-Hintzke wrote this book mainly for
her familiy, in particular for her granddaughter, but it's a legacy for the
whole postwar generation not only in Poland.
Reviewed and highly recommendet in: The Polish Review (Quarterly published by
the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America), Vol. XLVII, 2002, No.
4, p. 429.
