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Alexandra Doren
In 1941, the young Alexandra was forcefully taken by the German Nazis from her homeland, the Ukraine, and was transported along with hundreds of other Ukrainians, by cattle train to Germany, where ...view moreIn 1941, the young Alexandra was forcefully taken by the German Nazis from her homeland, the Ukraine, and was transported along with hundreds of other Ukrainians, by cattle train to Germany, where she worked in labor camps as a prisoner of war until the liberation in 1945 by the English and American armies. During her captivity, Alexandra often wrote poetry late in the evening about her distant homeland and about the hope for a dignified life. It was both difficult and dangerous to write poems under the watchful eye of her captors, and that is why most of her verse was lost during forced displacements from city to city and from country to country. Only by a miracle did one such poem survive. Written in 1943, the poem can be found in this collection under the title “We will not give in”.view less
Books by Alexandra Doren
All That Is Dear to My Heart: The Collected Poems of Alexandra Doren, Translated from the Russian by Lucas Stratton