Lyonka. Stolen Childhood
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Lyonka. Stolen Childhood
14.99 €
World War II. More than five million children under the age of fourteen were imprisoned in German concentration camps. According to the International Union of Former Child Prisoners of Fascism, only one in ten survived...
This is the story of a Russian boy named Alyosha, known as Lyonka as a child. He was nine years old when the first columns of German soldiers marched into his native village in the Smolensk region. Behind these columns, the boy's life was entered by unheard-of humiliations, merciless torture, inhuman suffering, excruciating hunger, and monstrous pain.
He witnessed with his own eyes how the Nazis massacred his fellow villagers, nearly lost his mother, and tried to fight by joining a spontaneously formed partisan detachment. But in that terrible summer of 1941, it was difficult to resist the terrible "brown plague." Lyonka and his mother were forcibly sent to a German labor camp, where the young boy endured not only unbearable conditions of detention and work, but also genuine torture.
The novel is based on documentary material, historical facts, and, of course, the living memories of its protagonist, Alexei Astakhov.
This is the story of a Russian boy named Alyosha, known as Lyonka as a child. He was nine years old when the first columns of German soldiers marched into his native village in the Smolensk region. Behind these columns, the boy's life was entered by unheard-of humiliations, merciless torture, inhuman suffering, excruciating hunger, and monstrous pain.
He witnessed with his own eyes how the Nazis massacred his fellow villagers, nearly lost his mother, and tried to fight by joining a spontaneously formed partisan detachment. But in that terrible summer of 1941, it was difficult to resist the terrible "brown plague." Lyonka and his mother were forcibly sent to a German labor camp, where the young boy endured not only unbearable conditions of detention and work, but also genuine torture.
The novel is based on documentary material, historical facts, and, of course, the living memories of its protagonist, Alexei Astakhov.
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- All books in the series A Book About a Miracle. Prose by Pavel Astakhov