{"product_id":"b0hh7z1pdt","title":"Surviving Silence: A Son's Account of His Father's Journey Through Soviet Captivity","description":"\u003cp\u003ePresumed dead. Forgotten by the world. But he survived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1939, Hubert Gawenda was an ordinary man—a chimney sweep, a husband, and a father—when he was drafted into the German Army and sent to the Eastern Front. Like countless others, he disappeared behind Soviet lines, swallowed by a brutal prisoner-of-war system where survival was uncertain and identity could mean death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor four harrowing years, he endured starvation, forced labor, and relentless winters in Soviet captivity. In a desperate moment that would determine his fate, he exchanged jackets with a fallen comrade—an act that saved his life but erased him from his family’s world. Back home, they mourned him as dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut he wasn’t. He came back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat returned, however, was not just a man—but a silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn  Surviving Silence , Peter Bodo Gawenda, Ed.D., reconstructs his father’s extraordinary journey through fragments of memory, personal accounts, and historical research. What emerges is a deeply personal and haunting portrait of survival, resilience, and the enduring weight of unspoken trauma.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is more than a war memoir. It is a story of:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e• Survival against unimaginable odds\u003cbr\u003e\n• The hidden toll of war long after it ends\u003cbr\u003e\n• A son’s mission to preserve a father’s truth before it is lost to time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers of World War II history, memoir, and human endurance,  Surviving Silence  offers a rare and intimate perspective—one that gives voice to the millions whose stories were never told.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers of World War II history, memoir, and human endurance,  Surviving Silence  offers a rare and intimate perspective—one that gives voice to the millions whose stories were never told.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you’ve ever wondered what happens after survival… this story will stay with you.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67934615207972,"sku":"YSL33283","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0805\/2614\/7620\/files\/81dlOF2dmAL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793248789","url":"https:\/\/booktavero.com\/products\/b0hh7z1pdt","provider":"BookTavero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}