The Story of a Polish Exile
If I had to make my rachunek sumienia (confession), I could say, with a very clear conscience, that the balance would be in my favour. I have never tried to make other people feel small because they were wrong... Witold Kasicki was born in a just-free Poland in 1920 after a century of oppression and occupation. Nineteen years of his life were devoted to building the dream of Poland, a dream which was to be destroyed by the German invasion in 1939. This led him, inescapably, to endure a terrible period of his life in concentration camps. Eventually he was sent to Dachau from where he and his fellow prisoners were liberated. History repeats itself... We don`t want to know of it, but unfortunately it happens, and it will happen again in the...
