Danuta: A novel based on the life of Danuta Buczak

In the spring of 1941, a 17-year-old girl living in Soviet-occupied eastern Poland is arrested by the Russian secret police and sent with her infant son to a labor camp in Siberia. Her name: Danuta Buczak. Her crime: being the wife of a Polish army lieutenant. She will see her husband sentenced to be executed. She will bury her child on a Siberian hillside. Yet Danuta’s defiant spirit cannot be crushed. Determined to return to Poland and freedom, this courageous young woman slips past her labor camp guards on a snowy night and sets out alone on an incredible journey across the vast Soviet empire. Danuta is a novel based on the real-life saga of Danuta Buczak.