Fifty years on and the three sisters decide to return to their homeland, still in the Soviet Union. The cruellest fate of the Jewish people recounted. The Orthdox Church. The landscape that sustained.

Chapter 15 THE RETURN part 1

Aug 8th, 2020 29m 15s

Another train journey. Edmund‘s fate in General Anders’ army. A surprise meeting in Egypt. Scattered photos and a broken mirror. New life in newly redrawn Poland.

Chapter 14 LILA part 2

Aug 8th, 2020 34m 22s

1944. Another trip to an unknown land. A new life in Krasnoje. Lila’s sacrifice. Farewells and arrivals. The taste of fruit. Goodbyes.

Chapter 14 LILA part 1

Aug 8th, 2020 20m 38s

Lila’s courage. The fate of Mikolaj and Jakub’s Golden Hut and its inhabitants.

Chapter 13 THE JUDGMENT part 2

Aug 8th, 2020 40m 30s

Niunia’s fall. Soviet chief nurse: ‘You will dance by the end of April’. Those who go and those who return.

Chapter 13 THE JUDGMENT part 1

Aug 8th, 2020 27m 5s

Babushka and famine. Those who go and those who return. The fate of the earrings. Anders army recruits depart. Another unexpected offering. Children to kowchoz in Bashkiria. The loaf of bread.

Chapter 12 MIETIELICA part 2

Aug 8th, 2020 38m 25s

The trip to Bashkiria. Rewda station. The journey to the Mari woman. The Snow storm. ‘Sabaki’? ‘Everybody is afraid’.

Chapter 12 MIETIELICA part 1

Aug 8th, 2020 36m 34s

Klawdia’s secret. Fiedia’s fate. The cabbage fields and the Golden uczastek. Sara’s despair. Merciless winter .

Chapter 11 ON THE EDGE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH part 3

Aug 8th, 2020 28m 9s

Children back to work. Meeting Kopytow again. ‘Praklataya Vajna’. The performance. Famine. The lingonberry trip and the swamp. A King’s feast.

Chapter 11 ON THE EDGE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH part 2

Aug 8th, 2020 31m 46s

A letter to Abrahamek.The German Prisoner of War camp. The mysterious mine manager. New arrivals. Jewish exiles and Sara Gerber.

Chapter 11 0N THE EDGE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH part 1

Aug 8th, 2020 29m 32s

On the edge between life and death. Christmas Eve (Wigilia) 1940. Danusia’s arrangement. Antoni, the sledge and the railway man. Soviets at war with Germany.

Chapter 10 HARD LABOUR part 2

Aug 8th, 2020 29m 54s

Siberian first spring. Epidemic and a mysterious package. Soviet school commences. Facing up to Kopytow .Polish schooling in secret. Second winter is coming.

Chapter 10 HARD LABOUR part 1

Aug 8th, 2020 35m 22s

Ural Mountains and the exiles regain their sight. Camp Konny Dwor in Dziegciarka.Barrack 20. The bathhouse and Kopytow. Children and grown-ups face hard labour. Niunia’s new friend Klawdia. Befriending Chachlucha.

Chapter 9 HUMAN NESTS part 2

Aug 8th, 2020 18m 55s

Human nests. Life in the cattle wagon from birth to death. Destination unknown. Niunia’s letters to Abrahamek.

Chapter 9 HUMAN NESTS part 1

Aug 8th, 2020 35m 47s

The railway station. Lila. ‘Where are we going?’ Faithful Ace.

Chapter 8 - FAREWELL

Aug 8th, 2020 31m 50s

The ‘night ghosts’. The trip to a different ‘voivodeship’. In the classroom. The farewell.

Chapter 7 CROWS AND RAVENS part 2

Aug 8th, 2020 30m 51s

An unexpected visit from Olenka, the photographs. The meeting with Stalin at the Kremlin. The fear. Krystyna’s visit. Olenka’s strange request and the night sleigh ride to Sawin on February 9th 1940.

Chapter 7 CROWS AND RAVENS part 1

Aug 8th, 2020 31m 24s

Managing the estate in Antoni’s absence. Friendship with the Jewish population. The last honey harvest. Crows and ravens. The meeting with Major Burianow. Plans to escape.

Chapter 6 BITTER HONEY

Aug 8th, 2020 39m 44s

1939. War declared by Germany and the arrival of the ‘liberator of the people’ . MIkolaj and his ideology. Krystyna’s visit .The arrival of a Soviet high ranking tenant.

Chapter 5 CHRISTMAS 1938

Aug 8th, 2020 17m 41s

1938. Christmas in Litwinowka, the happiest and most memorable one.

Chapter 4 HARVEST

Aug 8th, 2020 24m 22s

Harvest in Litwinowka: life through the seasons, bee-keeping in Sawin. Mikolaj, Maria’s brother -in - law and his political activity. The mad fortune teller Krystyna and her prophesies.

Chapter 3 LITWINOWKA

Aug 8th, 2020 17m 57s

Litwinowka - the landscape of Maria’s estate and the people who worked for her. The colourful mosaic of the Jewish population in the town of Kurieniec. Niunia’s little gang - Danusia, Zuczek, Abrahamek.

Chapter 2 MARIA part 3

Aug 8th, 2020 37m 45s

Maria’s sisters, suitors and life in Litwinki. Meeting Antoni. The twins - Danusia and naughty Niunia are born.

Chapter 2 MARIA part 2

Aug 8th, 2020 24m 27s

Maria’s life between Litwinki and St. Petersburg, her education and her extraordinary talent. Maria’s decision. The fate of her uncle and the General’s family during the Russian Revolution.