My Mother's SecretMy Mother's Secret

"Set in 1930s Russia and WWII Poland, My Mother's Secret opens in 1988 with the death of Lena Mirapolsky's father, who hints at a secret with his final words. Lena presses her mother, Regina, for the truth behind her father's last words only to discover the harrowing story of her mother's past. Regina, having fled Moscow during the first of Josef Stalin's 1930s purges for the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan, becomes torn between the man who steals her heart, and the one who can keep her alive in a dangerous time. She chooses love, but to avoid Siberian exile her newfound love, Aaron, must join the Russian war effort. Desperate to be with Aaron, Regina travels west just as the Germans begin their invasion of the Soviet Union. After the birth of their daughter, Lena, Aaron is captured and sent to a German POW camp in Poland. Against all odds Regina carries Lena across war torn areas and disguises herself as a German nurse in order to enter the camp. Months later, when the war ends, she makes a heartbreaking choice to protect her young daughter. When Lena finally discovers her mother's secret, she and her mother return to the Soviet Union to fulfill Regina's promise to the man she loved"--