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John Czernyha '51 was born in Poland. When the Germans invaded his Russian-occupied country in 1939, Czernyha was studying at the Lwow Medical School. Because he was actively engaged in several anti-communist youth organizations, the German invasion saved him and his family from deportation to Siberia...
Twenty-eight-year-old Lieut. Piotr Pirogov and his copilot, Anatoly Barsov, had been planning for a year to escape from Russia and get to the U.S. They had left their base near Lwow, formerly Poland, on a routine training flight that morning and headed for Munich in the U.S. zone of Germany. The third member of their crew, a flight sergeant, was not in on the lieutenants' plan. When they were airborne, Pirogov told the sergeant he could either come along or bail out while still over Russian territory. Since there were no parachutes in the plane...
...young woman who had been a mathematics lecturer at the University of Lwow was jailed because her father was in trouble with the NKVD. She never saw him again. Some months later she herself was ,in Kazakstan, living mostly on whey, wild roots and tea. Her job on a Soviet dairy farm was explained "in quite a friendly way" by the ouprav (overseer). She was to follow the cows around, gather their dung, smear it over the wickerwork of nearby sheds. In time the dung would dry and then presto, said the overseer, the sheds would be habitable. For this...
...Wasowski was known only in Lwow, where he took lessons from his piano-teaching mother and played solos with the Lwow Philharmonic Society. When the Russians entered Poland they heard his fiercely impassioned interpretations of Chopin, packed him off to play in Russia. In Kharkov he performed nine times in three days ("It got too much for my nerves but I must say, it improved me technically"). After 186 Russian concerts, he returned to Lwow and got there just a few days before the Germans...
...knows the troubles it's seen. When the Big Three gave the Polish city of Lwów to Russia, the University lost its home. It found a new home by crossing Poland to Breslau, a German city which the Big Three gave to Poland in exchange for Lwow...