I have come across the following book on Amazon, and thought it may be of
interest to the group. here is the web reference:
sr_8_5_1/107-5920966-9472545
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Stefan Wisniowski
Moderator, Kresy-Siberia
Stolen Childhood : A Saga of Polish War Children
by Lucjan Krolikowski, Kazimierz J. Rozniatowski (Translator), Jan Mazur
List Price: $21.95
Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours
Only 1 left in stock--order soon (more on the way).
Paperback - 348 pages (February 2001)
iUniverse.com; ISBN: 0595168639 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.84 x 9.04 x 6.03
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Editorial Reviews
Book Description
The post-WWII adventures of 150 Polish children deported to Russian and
ultimately rescued by a Franciscan priest who was branded a kidnapper by a
Communist government.
Stolen Childhood is the story of what happened to some 380,000 Polish
children who, with their families, were rounded up by Stalin's orders in
1939 and deported into Asiatic Russia. Lucjan Krolikowski, a young
seminarian also deported there, shared and witnessed the suffering of his
fellow Poles.
Freed by an "amnesty," he joined the Polish Army, and when it moved to the
Middle East, Lucjan resumed his theology studies, pronounced his vows, and
became a chaplain to a Polish military hospital in Egypt. Reassigned to
refugee camps in East Africa, Fr. Lucjan and the wandering Polish children
met again in 1947--a meeting that began a long and loving relationship.
In 1949 when the Warsaw Communists claimed guardianship of the Polish
orphans in Africa and demanded their repatriation, Fr. Lucjan was forced
into a world of international intrigue. Called by the Communists "a
kidnapper on an international scale," to his orphans he was the Good
Shepherd who led them to Canada, where he helped his charges overcome the
theft of their childhood and become secure adults in a new world. Stolen
Childhood is the book of memories he wrote for them, and a cautionary
history for people of good will.
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