Jan Stepek : Part 1: Gulag to Glasgow
Stepek, Martin
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Cadzow-Haczow books, 2024
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253 pages
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Jan Stepek was one of Scotland's most highly regarded businessmen. But before he came to Scotland he had a remarkable and traumatic life. Raised in a farm in pre-WW2 Poland he and his family were deported to a Soviet labour camp in 1940 and then endured a five thousand mile exodus wandering through Russia until they reached freedom in Persia, now Iran.Now his son Martin Stepek has written this detailed account of how a family built a home and community from scratch then lost it all in wartime, only to ultimately find themselves in a new land where they had to use every ounce of resilience they had to create a new, prosperous and safe life for themselves.With astonishing stories of survival and loss contained within a geopolitical landscape of immense proportions read how Jan Stepek and his family experienced some of the most harrowing yet ultimately uplifting years any human could face.
ISBN:
9798320859293
Dewey class:
920.STEP
Language:
English
BRN:
3949943