Review by Booklist Review
Bardach (who recently died) and Gleeson are the authors of Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag (1998). In this sequel, Bardach picks up his story in March 1946, when he was released from the Kolyma labor camps in Siberia. In 1941, as a Soviet Army soldier, Bardach had been arrested by the KGB, court-martialed, and sentenced to 10 years of hard labor, one of millions seized in Stalin's reign of terror. Here Bardach, a Polish Jew, recounts his 1,000-mile journey to Moscow; his reunion with his brother, a diplomat in the Polish embassy there; and the trip to his hometown in Poland, desolate and filled with debris and rubble, but empty of Jews. He then studies at a medical institute in Moscow, experiences a new wave of rabid anti-Semitism, and returns to Poland in 1954. In 1972, he came to the U.S. Bardach's story is one of loneliness and loss as he struggles to create a new life. --George Cohen
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