| No Place To Call Home, by Alexandra Everist |
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$19.95 ISBN 978-0-9820587-5-6 Paperback; 5.5" X 8.5" No Place to Call Home relates the experiences of a 19-year-old Polish man who is captured by the Soviets at the beginning of World War II and sent to a Siberian concentration camp in Kolyma. It is a story that is largely forgotten in most history books today. Each prison and gulag Stanley is sent is "no place to call home". In order to survive the un-survivable, the prisoners must work in collaboration with each other. Of the unknown hundreds of thousands sent to the Siberian gulags, only 583 Polish prisoners would return, one of them being Stanley Kowalski. This is his story. About the author: Born in London, England, the daughter of a survivor of the Soviet gulags, Alexandra Everist came to Chicago in 1960, where she attended Schurz H.S. She received her B. A. in English from Alliance College and her MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. After her retirement from Abbott Laboratories, she worked as the Vice President in HR for HealthPlan Holdings in Tampa. She has four sons, one daughter, one granddaughter and one step-son. She has been an active member of Rotary International since 1988. Stanley Kowalski was born in Jazlowiec, Poland in 1920. At the age of 19, he was captured by the Soviets and incarcerated in numerous prisons before being sentenced to the Siberian concentration camps in the gold mines of Kolyma. After his release, Stanley joined the 1st Polish Armoured Division and fought in Normandy, Belgium, Holland and Germany where he was shot just before the end of the war. Stanley moved to England where he met and married the mother of his three children, Joyce Fleming. The family emigrated to the US in 1960. Joyce died in 1965. Stanley now lives in Auburn, Indiana with his wife, Maryla Garczynska Kowalski. |