Presentation of the book "SAM. From Soviet Gulags to New Zealand". - meeting with its author

We invite you to a meeting with Alina Sukhanski, author and translator of the book "SAM. From Soviet Gulags to New Zealand".
The happy childhood of four-year-old Toni in a Polish family in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic was brutally interrupted by the outbreak of World War II.
His father, commander of the local police force, gets sent to the Ostashkov POW camp and dies at the hands of the Soviets. Toni, along with his mother and brothers, is deported to Kazakhstan, where he ends up in a Soviet orphanage after the death of his beloved mother. From there, after a few years, to New Zealand with a group of 733 Polish orphans.
Szczecin native Alina Suchanska, who has lived in New Zealand for 42 years, described Toni's fate in a book entitled "Alone, an inspiring story of survival and determination," published in English in 2012. This year she translated it into Polish and published it in Szczecin under the title "Alone, from Soviet gulags to New Zealand."