The Ice Road
News, Reviews & Events — 2011
This page contains News, Reviews & Events from 2011 dealing with The Ice Road, either in whole or in part. Complete listings can be found in the News, Reviews & Events Archive under Media Room in the main menu. Other years for this title can be found under the News, Reviews & Events tab in the menu at the left of this page.
December 2–4, 2011 – Washington, D.C. – Polish Perspectives at National Council for Social Studies – The Ice Road was among the Aquila Polonica books exhibited in the Polish Perspectives booth at the 2011 Annual Conference of the National Council for Social Studies, held December 2-4, 2011 in Washington, D.C.
November 17–20, 2011 – ASEEES Annual Convention in Washington, D.C. – 2011 marked our second year exhibiting at the ASEEES Annual Convention (ASEEES is the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, in case you wondered). This year we were in the nation’s capital, which gave us a wonderful opportunity to connect with the Polish Embassy and other Washington-area friends. All of the titles which we’d released by the time of the conference were on display and available for sale, including The Ice Road. More…
November 20, 2011 – No-Name Neighborhood Book Club, Falls Church, VA – Alice Waydenfeld Faintich was the featured speaker at the No-Name Neighborhood Book Club in Falls Church, VA, giving a multimedia presentation about the World War II Soviet deportations of Polish civilians and discussing her father’s book The Ice Road.
November 18, 2011 – Book Club, Fairfax, VA – A Fairfax, VA book club invited Alice Waydenfeld Faintich to lead their discussion about her father’s book, The Ice Road.
November 11, 2011 – Mountain Women, Wintergreen, VA – Alice Waydenfeld Faintich gave a presentation on the World War II Soviet deportations of Polish civilians to Siberia, and discussed her father’s book The Ice Road at a meeting of the Mountain Women.
Dr. Stefan Waydenfeld, 1945October 24, 2011 – IN MEMORIAM – It is with great sadness that we report the passing on October 24, 2011 of Dr. Stefan Waydenfeld, author of our award-winning book The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom. Dr. Waydenfeld, a physician, was born in Poland in 1925, survived Soviet deportation to a forced labor camp in Siberia during World War II, and later fought in the war as an officer in the Polish Second Corps under General Anders. He is survived by his wife Danuta, who resides in London, and his daughter Alice Waydenfeld Faintich, who resides in Virginia. Click each item to read: an interview with Dr. Waydenfeld conducted by his daughter Alice; an excerpt from The Ice Road; and his blog on the Huffington Post.
The funeral was held on Friday, October 28, 2011, at 12:30 pm, at Hendon Cemetery, at the burial chapel (not the crematorium chapel).
September 15, 2011 – Charlottesville, VA – Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Virginia – Alice Waydenfeld Faintich presented a program to a packed room about her father’s book The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom for the OLLI-UVA Special Presentations Series. More…
August 25, 2011 – New Castle, New Hampshire – Mill Pond Book Club – Alice Waydenfeld Faintich presented her father’s book The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom. More…
June 27, 2011 – Alexandria, VA — While in the Washington, D.C. area for her Institute of World Politics presentation, Alice Waydenfeld Faintich was invited that same evening to present her father’s book, The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom, at April Burke-Lewis’ book group in near-by Alexandria, VA. More…
June 27, 2011 – Washington, D.C. — at the Institute of World Politics, Alice Waydenfeld Faintich presented a seminar about the Soviet deportations of Polish civilians to Siberia during the first year of World War II, drawing from her father’s book The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom. More…
May 23, 2011 – Aquila Polonica Press Release –“Aquila Polonica Books Win Four 2011 Benjamin Franklin Awards: 303 Squadron Scores Gold Award for Best History Book, Silver Award for Design,” announcing win of a Gold and three Silver Awards for 303 Squadron, The Ice Road and Maps and Shadows. Read the press release…
May 23, 2011 – Bringing Home the GOLD (and the SILVER)! – 2011 Benjamin Franklin Awards — Aquila Polonica books won one gold and three silver awards at the 2011 Benjamin Franklin Awards, the premier awards competition in independent publishing, on Monday night, May 23, in New York City. More…
May 13, 2011 – Nelson County, VA – Alice Waydenfeld Faintich addressed a Nelson County book group, at its Friday evening dinner meeting, about her father Dr. Stefan Waydenfeld’s book The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom. More…
May 5, 2011 – Aquila Polonica Press Release – “Aquila Polonica Books Named Finalists in 2011 Benjamin Franklin Awards: Independent Publisher’s WWII Novel, Memoir and History Titles Honored in Four Categories,” re: 303 Squadron (History, and Interior Design:1-2 Color), The Ice Road (Autobiography/Memoir), and Maps and Shadows (Historical Fiction). Read the press release…
March 20, 2011 – The Daily Progress on The Ice Road – “There is much to learn in this inspiring testament to human will and innate dignity,” says journalist David Maurer, writing about The Ice Road in the Daily Progress of Charlottesville, VA. Maurer reviews The Ice Road, and also interviews Alice Waydenfeld Faintich about her father’s book. He says, “The book reads like an adventure yarn, even as it offers a cautionary tale of what can happen when evil systems of government are allowed to exist…Bearing witness against the unjust becomes the duty of the just.” Read the article online or pdf…
March 13, 2011 – Nellysford, VA — Alice Waydenfeld Faintich was the featured speaker at one of the Stoney Creek at Wintergreen book groups, discussing her father’s book The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom. More…
March 3–4, 2011 – Rochester, MN – Polish Perspectives at the Minnesota Council for Social Studies – The Ice Road was among the Aquila Polonica books exhibited at the Polish Perspectives booth at the 2011 Annual Conference of the Minnesota Council for Social Studies held March 3-4, 2011 in Rochester, MN.
February 24, 2011 – Charlottesville, VA — For his course entitled “The Dark Side of the 20th Century,” University of Virginia Professor Dariusz Tolczyk invited Alice Waydenfeld Faintich to lecture about the Soviet deportations of Polish civilians during World War II and her father’s experiences as chronicled in his book The Ice Road. More…
January/February 2011 – World War II Magazine – In its review of The Ice Road, World War II Magazine says that Dr. Waydenfeld’s “masterful recounting spares nothing except self-pity.” Read the review…
