Events

The Polish Center of Discovery and Learning
at Elms College, Chicopee

Exiled as a baby from what was Eastern Poland, Donna Chmara brings to life the words of 20 survivors caught within the dual invasions of Poland in WW II – a family deported to the frozen Arctic of Russia, a Catholic priest subjected to German medical experiments, women in Kazakhstan toiling to grow food for the Soviet army, families spending winter in underground pits, single girls used as domestics and factory workers, and a teen-ager attending secret classes despite the Nazi ban on education.…