Wesley Adamczyk
Auteur van When God Looked the Other Way: an odyssey of war, exile, and redemption
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Adamczyk, Wesley
- Officiële naam
- Adamczyk, Wieslaw
- Geboortedatum
- 1933-01-14
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Poland
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Poland
- Geboorteplaats
- Warsaw, Poland
- Woonplaatsen
- Deerfield, Illinois, USA
- Opleiding
- DePaul University
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Diamond Life Master (bridge)
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- Werken
- 3
- Leden
- 56
- Populariteit
- #291,557
- Waardering
- 4.4
- Besprekingen
- 3
- ISBNs
- 4
- Talen
- 1
This is a first person account of the author’s family’s plight during WWII at the hands of the Soviets when they invaded Poland. The father, a Polish officer, was captured by the Soviets and the family was uprooted and moved to a settlement in southern Russia. Eventually the family ended up in Turkey where an American cousin found them and began to work to get them to the United States, but not before the mother died. After the war, Adamczyk discovered that his father was one of 25,421 POW Stalin ordered murdered in the Katyn Forest Massacre. More horrible and more evil than the Massacre was the undeniable fact that Roosevelt, Churchill and the other allies intentionally hid the fact that the Soviets were responsible for the mass murder. It really turned my stomach to see what these so-called great men did because they were sucking up to Stalin.… (meer)