Post Tagged with: "Kresy"

OJCU – To My Father
2016 Vol. 8 No. 1—Winter / Films

OJCU – To My Father

by × on December 9, 2016 at 9:31 am ×

In 1938, a little girl, Alina Bandrowska, saw her father arrested by the NKVD, the Soviet secret police. He never returned.

Chatting with Greg Archer
2015 Vol. 7 No. 1 — Spring / Books / Interviews

Chatting with Greg Archer

by × on February 24, 2015 at 2:20 pm ×

Justine Jablonska catches Greg Archer in a serious moment, and the conversation ranges from Cyndi Lauper and Ewan McGregor to his indomitable family and the after-effects of war.

Greg Archer’s Grace Revealed
2015 Vol. 7 No. 1 — Spring / Books

Greg Archer’s Grace Revealed

by × on February 24, 2015 at 2:10 pm ×

Fast-paced, sometimes self-indulgent but at times furiously funny, Greg Archer looks at his family’s traumatic experience in the Soviet gulag after years of running away from it.

Children in Exile: Recollections of Children Deported to the Soviet Gulag
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Films / Interviews

Children in Exile: Recollections of Children Deported to the Soviet Gulag

by × on October 10, 2011 at 9:30 am ×

Chicago-based filmmaker Chris Swider discusses his award-winning documentary, and why he chose to focus on the youngest “enemies of the State.”

Kresy: First the Forest
2010 Vol. 2 No. 2 — Summer / Features

Kresy: First the Forest

by × on June 8, 2010 at 12:00 pm ×

For centuries, the biodiversity of the great forest of Poland’s eastern borderlands was the natural habitat for a diversity of cultures.