Kaia, Heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising

TitleKaia, Heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsZiolkowska-Boehm, Aleksandra
Number of Pages195
PublisherLexington Books
CityLanham, MD
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This volume tells the story of Kaia Iljin (1916-2007), whose life encompasses a century of Polish history. Full of tragic and compelling experiences such as life in Siberia, Warsaw before World War II, the German occupation, the Warsaw Rising, and life in the Soviet Ostashkov prison, Kaia was deeply involved with the battle that decimated Warsaw in 1944 as a member of the resistance army and the rebuilding of the city as an architect years later. Kaia’s father was expelled from Poland for conspiring against the Russian czar. She spent her early childhood near Altaj Mountain and remembered Siberia as a “paradise”. In 1922, the family returned to free Poland, the train trip taking a year. Kaia entered the school system, studied architecture, and joined the Armia Krajowa in 1942.  In 1946, Kaia, very ill and weighing only 84 pounds, returned to Poland, where she regained her health and later worked as an architect to the rebuild the totally decimated Warsaw.

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