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An unflinching, detailed portrait of a forgotten group of Nazi forced labor survivors."My mother, who was a Polish forced laborer from 1942 to 1945, never talked to me about her life during the war. Now I know. With a great combination of scholarly research and moving first person accounts, Knab's "Wearing the Letter P" vividly describes the terrible, heartbreaking ordeal that my mother and hundreds of thousands of Poles suffered. She expertly sheds light on a part of World War II that s been totally ignored." Charles Belfoure, author of The Paris Architect "In years to come, Wearing the Letter P will be the book to which readers turn to understand what the Germans did to the almost 2 million Poles who were taken to Germany as slave and forced laborers.



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Sophie Hodorowicz Knab

I was born in a Displaced Person's camp in Germany after World War II. My parents were among the millions of Poles who had been taken from Poland against their will and made to work in Germany as forced laborers. Our family immigrated to the United States in 1954 and I grew up American with its popsicles and roller skates but also with the language, customs and traditions of Poland. In 1980 I visited Poland for the first time and it changed my life. If there is a constant thread that weaves itself through my adult life, it would be my passion for Poland - its customs and traditions, its culture and its history. It is the basis for all my writing.



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