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My Grandfather’s Mill – Journey
to Freedom is a true story — part
history, part biography. It focuses
on two families and their two infant
children, Andrew and Chrystyna,
born in Western Ukraine at the
height of the Second World War.
Their parents fought for Ukrainian
independence throughout the years
of Polish occupation, the invasion of
Stalin’s Bolshevik forces and during
the years of Hitler’s Nazi terror.
Members of both their families were
murdered by one or another of the
occupying armies. Family accounts of
concentration camps, refugee camps; of
war crimes, brutality and uncertainty,
of hope, courage and unexpected
generosity are interwoven with the
historical realities of the time.
They were among the lucky ones
who found freedom in North America.
Half a century after they left their
homeland, Andrew and Chrystyna
returned. They discovered the villages
of their birth, found family members
they didn’t know existed, experienced
their culture fi rst-hand and fi nally
began to make sense of their place
in history.
This book is written for future
generations, for all those who have
lived in two very different worlds, for
victims of wars, present day refugees,
immigrants and especially for those
who were born and have always
lived in a free country and never
experienced the horrors of war.
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