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Journey into the Backwaters of the Heart - Stories of Women Who Survived Hitler and Stalin (Paperback)
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Journey into the Backwaters of the Heart - Stories of Women Who Survived Hitler and Stalin (Paperback)
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A Fulbright grant enabled me to travel to Lithuania to record the
oral histories of women and men who were former partisan fighters,
liaisons, or supporters of Lithuania's post World War II armed
resistance against the Soviet Union. I also spoke to Jewish
Holocaust survivors and to women who lived to tell the tale of
Stalin's deportations to Siberia and Tajikistan. To hear these
stories I traveled to remote rural locations, bumping down dirt
roads in my Honda Civic. I sometimes slept in haylofts, helped out
with household chores, or sat behind the table, as the Lithuanian
saying goes, accepting the hospitality of my hosts. One visit was
seldom enough. Often after hours of talk, we cried together, but
more often we laughed. In 2007 - 2011 when I conducted these
interviews, the people I spoke with were already in their advanced
old age. I worried they might not recall the events of their youth
accurately. My worries proved to be unfounded. The stories told to
me were detailed and precise. I discovered that the memories that
remained most powerful at the end of these survivors lives were
memories of loves lived during times of trial and hardship. As I
listened, I was continually amazed that people who had experienced
torture, exile, loss, trauma, held one emotion close to their
hearts: That emotion was love. Each story told to me, at its core,
was a love story. That is why this collection of life stories is a
journey into the backwaters of the heart.
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