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Stubborn Life Poison Ivy a handy "Key Facts" boxThe end of the 1920s, the author's first memory: a knock on the door and the arrest of her uncle, guilty of 'anti Soviet activities.' He is to be executed. Born in 1923, a dozen or so kilometers from the pre war Polish Soviet border, Franceska Michalska is a citizen of occupied Ukraine. Her family, finding a nest of eggs to eat, miraculously survive the great famine of 1931 32 before falling victim to growing Stalinist terror and the mass deportation