Kaia, Heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising

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Kaia, Heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising tells the story of one woman, whose life encompasses a century of Polish history. Full of tragic and compelling experiences such as life in Siberia, Warsaw before World War II, the German occupation, the Warsaw Rising, and life in the Soviet Ostashkov prison, Kaia was deeply involved with the battle that decimated Warsaw in 1944 as a member of the resistance army and the rebuilding of the city as an architect years later.

Kaia� s father was expelled from Poland for conspiring against the Russian czar. She spent her early childhood near Altaj Mountain and remembered Siberia as a ��paradise”. In 1922, the family returned to free Poland, the train trip taking a year. Kaia entered the school system, studied architecture, and joined the Armia Krajowa in 1942. After the legendary partisan Hubal� s death, a courier gave Kaia the famous leader� s Virtuti Militari Award to protect. She carried the medal for 54 years. After the Warsaw Rising collapsed, she was captured by the Russian NKVD in Bialystok and imprisoned. In one of many interrogations, a Russian asked about Hubal� �s award. When Kaia replied that it was a religious relic from her father, she received only a puzzled look from the interrogator. Knowing that another interrogation could end differently, she hid the award in the heel of her shoe where it was never discovered.

In 1946, Kaia, very ill and weighing only 84 pounds, returned to Poland, where she regained her health and later worked as an architect to the rebuild the totally decimated Warsaw.

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I read Kaia, Heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising to help me in my research with an historical fiction novel I'm writing about the scouts in Warsaw who helped during the RIsing. Kaia helped provide more first-hand information on the Rising. For those interested in this time period, and in reading about people who lived through it, Kaia provides a good resource. I also appreciated the pictures in the book. These were pictures I hadn't seen before online or in other books. I also appreciated the fact that Kaia was written by someone who lived and studied in Poland, and understands events from a Polish point of view, but who has also lived and worked in the United States. Writing about cross-cultural events always rings more true when written by someone who has experienced life in both cultures.

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