A Cork On The Waves is a story of survival. Halina Robinson was a teenager when the Nazis invaded Poland. In this book she describes the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto and her determination to survive as she saw many of her fellow countrymen and women lost to the concentration camps of Belsen and Auschwitz. Halina describes the bravery of the many people who risked their lives to shelter and save her. Barely seventeen when thee war ends, she describes her life in the new Poland and her final disillusionment with the Polish Peoples Republic and the first steps in her long journey to Australia.
Booker prize winner Tom Keneally writes:
“This is the story of how the murderous ethnic program cancelled out the sweet Polish childhood of Halina Trachtenberg and replaced it with uncertainty and terror.”
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