Bob - does Norman Davies know anything on the deportations to Siberia? ?Is the Pope Polish?!
Norman's wife Myshka is from Lwow and he is very familiar with the events. ?Norman is actually interviewed in the film "A Forgotten Odyssey" and when we premiered it in Sydney just after the Olympics in September 2001, he sent a message to be read on the evening. ?Here it is:
Message from Norman Davies
21 September 2001
Congratulations on screening Jagna's film which I watched on History Channel last Monday. I have seen it before but it was a moving experience again.
Our home has a common interest in the subject with Mr Wisniowski. ?The parents of my wife, Myszka, like those of Mr Wisniowski, were in the town of Brody near Lvov when the Soviet Army arrived. ?Her father, as an educated man and professional surveyor, was on the list of people to be deported. He only escaped because the NKVD went to arrest him at an old address from which he had removed sometime earlier.
This incident suggests that the Soviet authorities planned for the deportations 2 or 3 years before they actually happened.
I hope that the Australian media take note of the film and they react more sensibly than those in London. The BBC included an item about the film in one of its programs but relied on only "expert" information of a woman from LSE who calmly explained the deportations away as a rational exercise in removing "anti-soviet elements", and who forgot to mention that a similar number of human beings perished in the Soviet deportations as perished in Auschwitz.
Serdecznie pozdrawiam,
Professor Norman Davies
Author, Europe - A History
Bob I will send you some contact details off-line.
Regards,
Stefan Wisniowski
> From: "Robert Ambros"
> Does anyone know if Norman Davies has published anything on the deportations
> to Siberia? ?This would be a logical continuation of his work. ?He may not
> even be that familiar with the events. ?Does anyone in the group know Norman
> Davies or know how to reach him?
>
> Bob
