KAMIŃSKI LUDWIK Memories of a child exile from Kazakhstan [Autograph by the Author].

PSZCZYNA 2017, published by Pro Memoria, "1939 Battle of Pszczyna" Association, p. 194, dimensions 15 x 21, soft binding with wings, good condition.

The hero of these memoirs Ludwik Kaminski was born on January 15, 1925 in Slonim in what is now Belarus. He went down in history mainly as an exile to Kazakhstan, after which he left a remarkable testimony - a description through the eyes of a child of the adult world, a world into which he entered faster than he wished.... His life was hard, exceptionally hard.... In the interwar period, he fell ill with scarlet fever, as a result of complications he lost his hearing. Exiled place of exile in Kazakhstan he put the appearance as follows: "Olgovka presents itself with a two-kilometer street, in addition, there are a few houses with gardens and on the neighboring hill that is Sakhalin. Now overall it has 88 manors (houses), 104 families and 385 people including 48 Poles. Wr. 1940 there were about 520 people in it including 98 Poles. Now it is a very poor village, although some are quite "wealthy" (but only in today's sense). Describing the winter of 1945, he hinted at wolves prowling: The wolves are terribly rampant, walking around the village by our house at night..."