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Memoir By Soviet Labor Camp Survivor Now Available Online And In Toledo

Toledo-Lucas County Public Library

A Toledo woman's book about her time in a Soviet labor camp is now available at the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, thanks to a digital preservation project.  88-year-old Elizabeth Frankowski's memoir "Tears of Faith" is based on the diary she wrote in Polish that was eventually translated to English. The book includes drawings of what the then-13-year-old witnessed in a camp in Siberia in 1942.

An English transcript is available online through this link: http://​toledolibrary.org/​frankowskidiary

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.