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Maria Savchyn Pyskir
Author of Thousands of Roads: A Memoir of a Young Woman's Life in the Ukrainian Underground During and After World War II
About the Author
After immigrating to the United States in the 1950s, Maria Savchyn Pyskir remarried and raised a second family. She lives in Wauwatose, Wisconsin
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- From the publisher: Before, during, and after World War II, Maria Savchyn Pyskir served in the Ukrainian Underground resistance. Her dramatic and poignant memoir tells of her recruitment into underground service at age 14, her participation in resistance activities during the War, her bittersweet marriage to revolutionary leader "Orlan," her struggle against Stalinist forces, and her captures by and escapes from the KGB. In the 1950s when she escaped to the West, she began these memoirs, which were not published in Ukrainian until after the fall of the Soviet Union. Their appearance in Ukrainian caused a sensation, as she remains the only survivor of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) to have told her tale. Pyskir, whose escape came at the cost of her husband, children, and family, recreates in her memoir an astonishing account of her experiences as a Ukrainian partisan, a woman, a wife, a mother, and an outcast from her own land. After immigrating to the USA, Maria Savchyn Pyskir remarried and raised a second family. She lives in Wauwatose, Wisconsin.
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