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A young Jewish American man endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village, that was ultimately razed by the Nazis, with the help of a local who speaks weirdly funny broken English.

Describes what life was like for men, women, and children living in Ukraine under the Nazis in World War II.

Chronicles the events of 1929 to 1933 in the Ukraine when Stalin's Soviet Communist Party killed or deported millions of peasants; abolished privately held land and forced the remaining peasantry into "collective" farms; and inflicted impossible grain quotas on the peasants that resulted in mass starvation.

In this variation on the story of "The Fisherman and His Wife, " a young Ukrainian girl must repeatedly return to the wren she has rescued to relay her parents' increasingly greedy demands.

Their lives in a small Ukrainian town dramatically changed by the 1917 Revolution, the six Koshansky children and their mother struggle to survive in an increasingly hostile environment; after the mother's death, the children escape to America.

The author documents her experiences during World War II through a secret diary she kept during her time in a concentration camp and the years following the war.

Explores the reasons behind the Ukrainian famine of the early 1930s, looking at the impact of Stalin's forced collectivization and seizure of food, which resulted in the starvation of nearly seven million people.

In 1917, with the Ukraine involved in a three way struggle between the Bolshevik Red Army, the anti-Bolshevik White Army, and the Ukrainian independence fighters, and with Jews facing pogrom, Manya and her family flee for their lives to start a new life in the United States.

A guide to the culture and society of Ukraine for tourists and business travelers, discussing local customs and traditions, meetings and greetings, manners, home life and entertainment, transportation, business conduct, communication, and other related topics.