Re: Gen: comment on prisoners of WWII

[Dennis Hollingsead <hollings@ANDREWS.EDU>]

I have read it!! It is well worth finding and reading!!
Dennis Hollingsead
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edward nizalowski wrote:

> Hello,
>         I had something I wanted to add to this discussion although I'm a bit =
> late.  Many people tend to forget that when Germany attacked Poland on =
> Sept. 1, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded from the east on Sept. 17th.  =
> Thousands of Poles were sent to labor camps in Siberia.  One of those =
> individuals was Slavomir Rawicz who escaped with six of his companions.  =
> They went south and eventually four of them reached India after about a =
> year.  His ordeal can be read in a book called The Long Walk.  It was a =
> collaborative effort with a British writer, Ronald Downing.
>
>         Rawicz was living in England at the time and Downing contacted him =
> because Rawicz and his companions reported seeing the Abomidable Snowman =
> as they were crossing the Himalayas.  When Downing realized that Rawicz =
> had escaped from a Soviet labor camp, he realized he had a much bigger =
> story to record.  The entire ordeal is an incredible but true story of =
> survival.
>
> Ed Nizalowski, SMS
> Newark Valley High School
> Newark Valley, NY
> enizalowski@nvcs.stier.org
>
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