Kaia, heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising

• Foreword
• p. ix

• Acknowledgments
• p. xiii

• Introduction: The Message of Isaac B. Singer
• p. xv

• 1
• Poles in Siberia
• p. 1

• 2
• The Szemiot Family
• p. 7

• 3
• Zaysan at the Foothills of the Altai
• p. 11

• 4
• Eleven Months by Train from Siberia to Poland
• p. 23

• 5
• Poland, Biarystok
• p. 27

• 6
• Vilnius
• p. 33

• 7
• Warsaw, the 1930s
• p. 37

• 8
• Outbreak of the War
• p. 39

• 9
• Zamosc
• p. 41

• 10
• Warsaw under the German Occupation
• p. 43

• 11
• The Hubal Soldiers
• p. 47

• 12
• The Arrest of Modest and Death in Auschwitz
• p. 51

• 13
• "Buzzard," a Hubal Partisan
• p. 55

• 14
• The Organization
• p. 57

• 15
• The Warsaw Uprising
• p. 61

• 16
• "Thanks, I Have a Lollipop"
• p. 69

• 17
• Eastbound Journey to Bialystok
• p. 77

• 18
• Arrest
• p. 79

• 19
• NKVD Camp 41 in Ostashkov
• p. 83

• 20
• Back from Ostashkov
• p. 93

• 21
• After Return
• p. 95

• 22
• Marek Szymanski
• p. 97

• 23
• Imprisonments: The Lublin Castle and Wronki
• p. 99

• 24
• Released, Then Arrested Again
• p. 101

• 25
• Finally, Back to Normal?
• p. 105

• 26
• Rebuilding of Warsaw
• p. 111

• 27
• Trips and Travels
• p. 115

• 28
• Poland's Attractions: Kashubia and Sudovia
• p. 119

• 29
• Communism in Poland
• p. 121

• 30
• Marek, the Loyal Hubal Soldier
• p. 123

• 31
• Friends
• p. 127

• 32
• Animals and Pets
• p. 129

• 33
• Major Hubal's Virtuti Militari Cross
• p. 135

• 34
• Farewells
• p. 139

• 35
• Marek's Death
• p. 141

• 36
• Poland Independent, Poland Westernized: Fears and Anxieties
• p. 145

• 37
• Departing
• p. 149

• Notes
• p. 153

• Appendix 1
• Images of Siberia
• p. 167

• Appendix 2
• Your Thoughts about the 1944 Warsaw Uprising
• p. 175

• Bibliography
• p. 185

• Index
• p. 189

• About the Author
• p. 195