The author, Tamara Geacintov, was born in Poland in 1931. At the age of eight, she fled with her parents from the invading Soviet Army from Wilno, Poland, to German-occupied Poland...visualizza altroThe author, Tamara Geacintov, was born in Poland in 1931. At the age of eight, she fled with her parents from the invading Soviet Army from Wilno, Poland, to German-occupied Poland. She lived in three different refugee camps, first in Kulm, Germany, then Torun, Germany, and finally in Linz, Germany (now Austria). She came to the United States with her parents in 1952 at the age of twenty. She was married in Syracuse, New York, had two children, was divorced in 1979. She is now eighty-four years old and works as a freelance interpreter/translator in Russian, Polish, and German.visualizza meno