Tears of Faith

by Elizabeth S. Frankowski, Leon Frankowski (Translator)

Follow the journey of a young girl forced to grow into a maturity well beyond her years.

See how she deals with hatred, humiliation, sickness, and death. How the stacking of dead bodies on carts for removal would sicken the ordinary Sole. What would you be able to handle if you were thrown into the same series of events.

Tears of Faith is the English translation of a young girl's diary written in 1942. It recounts the two and a half years preceding where Elizabeth was deported from Poland and forced to live at a labor camp in Siberia.

175 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[Kellee Moye · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story is the story of one of my student's grandmothers. It is her history, and I was so honored to be able to read it. Written more as a memoir than a diary, the book was written in Iran in 1942 after the author has survived the labor camps of Siberia (and the travel back and forth!) and recounts the previous two and a half years and the hatred, disease, humiliation, extreme weather, and death that she faced with her family while they just tried to stay alive. I learned about this travesty within the middle of World War II when I read Between Shades of Gray which is based off of a similar story she found out about her family (though her family was from Lithuania), but to read words straight from the heart and mind of a teenager takes this atrocious history to a whole new level.