It Was Worth It

This is my life story. A Polish soldier who survived the inferno of the "Blitzkrieg" in September 1939, when Poland was massacred by the German Nazi armies in cooperation with the Russians.I was taken prisoner of war by the Russians and sent to Siberia. Hitler and Stalin divided Poland among themselves and later decided to exchange POW's. Much had been written about the barbarism committed by countless invaders, I thought this was
just history. How wrong I was .Because I was born in the western part of Poland which was occupied by the Germans, I was sent to Germany. There I lived a dramatic life in various camps-with several escapes-until the end of the war in 1945. After my last escape I met and fell in love with a German war widow who
had helped me while I was in hiding. We were married after my liberation and in 1951 we emigrated to the United States of America.