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Album of My Life - Ann Szedlecki / Ann Szedlecki was a Hollywood-film-loving fourteen-year-old when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939. Fleeing to the Soviet Union with her brother, she spent the next six years in a remote Siberian outpost, enduring loneliness, hunger and forced labour, but also savouring moments of warmth and friendship. Tender, tragic and also engagingly funny, Ann lovingly reconstructs her pre-war childhood in Lodz and offers a compelling and complex portrait of survival in the USSR and of the diversity of survivor experiences during the Nazi genocide. The reader is drawn to young Ann’s fierce determination, humour and decency as we accompany her on her coming-of-age journey without family and living largely by her wits. Full of rich detail and poignant observation, this is a beautiful rendering of the vicissitudes of one woman’s life in relation to the large-scale historical events that helped shape its course. Introduction by Naomi Azrieli

Other Title	The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
GMD	HKHTC Material
Classification	940.53 SZE
Publisher	Canada, The Azrieli Foundation, 2009
Subject	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland--Biography.Jews--Poland--BiographyJews--Soviet Union--Biography.Szedlecki, Ann, 1925-2005.
Topic	Holocaust Survivor--Biography.
Series	The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
ISBN	9781897470107
URL	https://memoirs.azrielifoundation.org/titles/album-of-my-life/https://archive.org/details/albumofmylife0000szed