Waiting for Mama

This book is about a womans survival of the Holocaust and the loss of her children. Returning to Poland, now Communist ruled, she begins her search. In 1948, she finds them living in America and, in desperation, finds a very dangerous way to get there. She joins a secret underground organization in hopes of escaping to Sweden and from there to America. But it would not be that simple. She is caught by the border patrol and imprisoned. Her family in America is unaware of her tragedy. Years go by before she is reunited with her children and husband.

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Waiting for Mama

This book is about a womans survival of the Holocaust and the loss of her children. Returning to Poland, now Communist ruled, she begins her search. In 1948, she finds them living in America and, in desperation, finds a very dangerous way to get there. She joins a secret underground organization in hopes of escaping to Sweden and from there to America. But it would not be that simple. She is caught by the border patrol and imprisoned. Her family in America is unaware of her tragedy. Years go by before she is reunited with her children and husband.

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Waiting for Mama

Waiting for Mama

by Bozenna Urbanowicz Gilbride
Waiting for Mama

Waiting for Mama

by Bozenna Urbanowicz Gilbride

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Overview

This book is about a womans survival of the Holocaust and the loss of her children. Returning to Poland, now Communist ruled, she begins her search. In 1948, she finds them living in America and, in desperation, finds a very dangerous way to get there. She joins a secret underground organization in hopes of escaping to Sweden and from there to America. But it would not be that simple. She is caught by the border patrol and imprisoned. Her family in America is unaware of her tragedy. Years go by before she is reunited with her children and husband.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781532028892
Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date: 08/18/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 126
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Bozenna Urbanowicz Gilbride, a Polish Catholic Holocaust survivor is married to Richard Gilbride and live in New York. They have four children. Her first book “Children of Terror” co-authored with Inge Auerbacher in 2009 was translated into Polish as “Przerwane dziecinstwo” and German as Verlorene Kindheit”. The book is being used in schools, teaching students what hate did, does, and will continue to do unless we change .For the past thirty years she has traveled across U.S. and Europe, telling her story of survival and family being reunited after thirteen years. At the request of parents, teachers and students this book was written.
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