The Ice Road
News, Reviews & Events — Current
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August 15, 2024 – Crozet, VA – The Ice Road at The Lodge at Old Trail – Alice Faintich drew a crowd of 60 to 70 people to her multimedia presentation at the Lodge at Old Trail, about her father Stefan Waydenfeld’s book The Ice Road. In this award-winning book, Waydenfeld chronicled his teen-age experiences during World War II as one of about 1.5 million Polish civilians deported to hard labor in Siberia by the Soviet Union.
February 5, 2024 – Crozet, VA – The Ice Road at Glenbrook Book Club – Alice Faintich presented a program and led a discussion about her father’s book The Ice Road and the Soviet deportation of Polish civilians to Siberia during World War II at the well-attended Glenbrook Book Club in Crozet, VA
December 1–3, 2023 – Nashville, TN – 2023 NCSS Conference – Once again, the American Council for Polish Culture organized and manned the Polish Perspectives booth at the Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies. As in past years, Aquila Polonica donated copies of The Ice Road and some of its other titles for the Polish Perspectives booth, along with two small posters of the Polish Air Force squadron insignia that will soon be for sale in our online store, which were given away to teachers. Cecilia Glembocki, who was one of the volunteers manning the booth, said the books were in such demand that they were all gone by the end of the first day!
May 11, 2023 – The Ice Road event in Charlottesville, VA – Alice Waydenfeld Faintich was invited to present her one-hour multimedia program on the WWII Soviet forced deportations of Polish civilians to Siberia, based on her father’s book The Ice Road, at a meeting of the ROMEOs (Retired Old Men Eating Out) group in Charlottesville, Virginia. The audience had lots of questions about this virtually unknown aspect of WWII, which continued after the program as they all lunched together.
March 1, 2023 – The Ice Road at Westminster-Canterbury of the Blue Ridge – Alice Waydenfeld Faintich presented a one-hour multimedia program on the WWII Soviet forced deportations of Polish civilians to Siberia, based on her father’s book The Ice Road, at Westminster-Canterbury of the Blue Ridge, Charlottesville, Virginia. In addition to the well-attended live event, the program was being streamed on the internal cable system and was also recorded for later watching by those who weren’t able to attend.
December 2–4, 2022 – Philadelphia, PA – Polish Perspectives at 2022 NCSS Conference – Once again, the American Council for Polish Culture organized and manned the Polish Perspectives booth at the Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies. As in past years, Aquila Polonica donated several copies of The Ice Road and some of its other titles for the Polish Perspectives booth, along with two small posters of the Polish Air Force squadron insignia that will soon be for sale in our online store, which were all given away to teachers.
December 6, 2021 – No Name Bookclub: Ice Road Presentation – Alice Waydenfeld Faintich presented a one-hour multimedia program on the WWII Soviet forced deportations of Polish civilians to Siberia, based on her father’s book The Ice Road, to the No Name Bookclub in Crozet, VA.
February 18, 2020 – Fulk’s Run, VA – Alice Faintich has been invited to attend a local book club which is reading her father’s book The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom, to discuss the book and her father’s experiences during WWII.
