When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption, Paperback/Wesley Adamczyk
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Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's
quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that
included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian
governments only recently admitted culpability. Standing in the
shadow of the Holocaust, this episode of European history is often
overlooked. Wesley Adamczyk's gripping memoir, When God Looked the
Other Way, now gives voice to the hundreds of thousands of victims
of Soviet barbarism. Adamczyk was a young Polish boy when he was
deported with his mother and siblings from their comfortable home
in Luck to Soviet Siberia in May of 1940. His father, a Polish Army
officer, was taken prisoner by the Red Army and eventually became
one of the victims of the Katyn massacre, in which tens of
thousands of Polish officers were slain at the hands of the Soviet
secret police. The family's separation and deportation in 1940
marked the beginning of a ten-year odyssey in which the family
endured fierce living conditions, meager food rations, chronic
displacement, and rampant disease, first in the Soviet Union and
then in Iran, where Adamczyk's mother succumbed to exhaustion after
mounting a harrowing escape from the Soviets. Wandering from
country to country and living in refugee camps and the homes of
strangers, Adamczyk struggled to survive and maintain his dignity
amid the horrors of war. When God Looked the Other Way is a memoir
of a boyhood lived in unspeakable circumstances, a book that not
only illuminates one of the darkest periods of European history but
also traces the loss of innocence and the fight against despair
that took root in one young boy. It is also a book that offers a
stark picture of the unforgiving nature of Communism and its
champions. Unflinching and poignant, When God Looked the Other Way
will stand as a testament to the trials of a family during wartime
and an intimate chronicle of episodes yet to receive their
historical due. "Adamczyk recounts the story of
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