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Caught in the Crossfire: One Woman's Battle for Survival in World War II
Caught in the Crossfire: One Woman's Battle for Survival in World War II
by Mary Wemyss Aitchison
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This is the story of Janina Pladek. As a schoolgirl, she witnessed the Nazi occupation of her country. It is a story of great suffering and yet, not that alone. Out of the turmoil and chaos of warfare grows a compassion that extends way beyond Poland to embrace suffering people elsewhere. This is a story of courage and hope.
When we face suffering, in particular the suffering of children and the innocent, it disturbs us. It seems so unfair that innocent lives should be torn and twisted by events that lie outside the control of the victim. Yet, there is another side to suffering: for it remains amazing, how many people who have faced the most appalling circumstances and have been able to rise above them; who choose not to be defeated or destroyed by it, but make something creative come from it. One might suggest that most useful, compassionate work in this world has emerged from someone's suffering. Suffering has the power to destroy us, but it need not, if we choose to use it otherwise.
This story will bring hope to many readers -- and even to people who never read it: because the author has donated half of all the Royalties to Y Care's work among Street Children. In ways that could never be known to her, Janina Pladek continues to bring a message of hope to thousands.
