A Little Girl from Poland

About the Book

Her book is a memoir of her turbulent life in Poland, Germany, Austria, and America. She describes life in the different refugee camps, the hardships she endured, and how she and her parents were able to overcome these difficulties that came their way. She writes about the adjustment that had to be made when starting life anew in each country, the mental and physical stresses she and her parents endured. Later she writes about her marriage and the birth of her children, the divorce, and the difficulties in having to survive on her own.

About the Author

The author, Tamara Geacintov, was born in Poland in 1931. At the age of eight, she fled with her parents from the invading Soviet Army from Wilno, Poland, to German-occupied Poland. She lived in three different refugee camps, first in Kulm, Germany, then Torun, Germany, and finally in Linz, Germany (now Austria). She came to the United States with her parents in 1952 at the age of twenty. She was married in Syracuse, New York, had two children, was divorced in 1979. She is now eighty-four years old and works as a freelance interpreter/translator in Russian, Polish, and German.