Six Years 'Til Spring - A Polish Family's Odyssey by Teresa Mikosz-Hintzke
The author, Teresa Mikosz-Hintzke, was born in Poland. Because of the upheavals of WWII she was deported at the age of five with her family to Soviet labor camps from which after two years she was released and went to Iran, staying there until the end of the war. She is one of the two thousand Polish children who, after being rescued from Russia via Uzbekistan, attended Polish schools in Isfahan, Iran. After the war, following a stay of several months in Lebanon, she was reunited with her father, a Polish military officer who had been a German POW. He was subsequently stationed in Italy and then England. In Great Britain she attended a Welsh boarding school and learned English. In 1948 she emigrated with her parents to Canada and in 1953, after finishing high school there, she came to the United States, where she lived in the Detroit area for many years. For the last 25 years she has called the Chicago area "home."
Teresa is a graduate of Northwestern University, having majored in Art History, but by profession she is a free-lance technical illustrator.
She has traveled widely and gives lectures and writes articles about places that she has visited. She has been selected for inclusion in the recently published 23rd edition of Who's Who of American Women.
"Finally, this is one of several books in English to tell the story of the Soviet deportation of Poles......very little said about the fate of a large group of people exiled from Poland, of whom thousands perished...... This book is highly recommende Polonia Today. A part of The Polonia Media Network. Chicago, July 2002
"... it is one of the best books about the war era, showing its chaos and tragedy." Roza Nowotarska, NOWY DZIENNIK, New York, NY. March 2002
"... remarkable odyssey of your family. It is nice to hear that at least one Polish family came out of the war more or less in reasonably good shape." Zbigniew Brzezinski, January 2002
"... The book not only describes the camps and the wanderings, but in addition gives account of people and local inhabitants whom the author and her mother encounter... "Six Years 'til Spring" adds a part to the WWII history about which is little known, particularly in the English language..." J. Wampuszyc, THE POLISH WEEKLY, Hamtramck, MI, January 2002
"...[she] has written a fascinating book about her family's experiences during World War II... the book strikes an interesting balance between detailing the struggles of the adults and showing us the child's sense of adventure." DIVERSITY TIMES, Chicago, IL, Fall 2001
"... It is very well done, well researched and well written..." J. Galazka, HIPPOCRENE BOOKS, Inc, October 1999.
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