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Siberian Exile - Blood, War, and a Granddaughter's Reckoning (Hardcover)
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Siberian Exile - Blood, War, and a Granddaughter's Reckoning (Hardcover)
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2018 Book Prize from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic
Studies 2018 Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature in
Nonfiction from the Koffler Centre of the Arts in Toronto When
Julija Sukys was a child, her paternal grandfather, Anthony, rarely
smiled, and her grandmother, Ona, spoke only in her native
Lithuanian. But they still taught Sukys her family's story: that of
a proud people forced from their homeland when the soldiers came.
In mid-June 1941 three Red Army soldiers arrested Ona and sent her
east to Siberia, where she spent seventeen years working on a
collective farm. It was all a mistake, the family maintained. Some
seventy years after these events, Sukys sat down to write about her
grandparents and their survival of a twenty-five-year forced
separation and subsequent reunion. Piecing the story together from
letters, oral histories, audio recordings, and KGB documents, her
research soon revealed a Holocaust-era secret-a family connection
to the killing of seven hundred Jews in a small Lithuanian border
town. According to KGB documents, the man in charge when those
massacres took place was Anthony, Ona's husband. In Siberian Exile
Sukys weaves together the two narratives: the story of Ona, noble
exile and innocent victim, and that of Anthony, accused war
criminal. She examines the stories that communities tell themselves
and considers what happens when the stories we've been told all our
lives suddenly and irrevocably change, and how forgiveness operates
across generations and the barriers of life and death.
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