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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cracow to Kilimanjaro. When the Red armies slogged in to "protect" Eastern Poland in 1939, Jan Olechny was sure the Russians would take action against antiCommunists. One chilly morning he said goodbye to his wife and twelve-year-old son Riszard, set out with a knapsack to walk through the lines and join some cousins in German-held Cracow...
...Pinega, Josepha Olechny worked as a woodcutter in winter and a farm laborer in summer. In 1941 Stalin made an agreement with the Polish government in exile to permit Poles in Russian camps to join the Polish forces then being formed in Russia. Again in boxcars, Josepha and her son, following Anders' army to the Middle East, traveled to the Caspian Sea, across it in a cattle boat to Persia. Then a British transport took the Olechnys and other Polish refugees through the Persian Gulf, around Arabia and down to Mozambique. From there they went by train...
Austria to New World. At war's end, Jan Olechny was freed from the farm in Austria, was shunted from one D.P. camp to another. Finally he reached Naples. Last month his wife and son, who had located him through the Red Cross, sailed to Naples on the U.S. Army transport General Black...
...minutes later, for the first time in ten years, Jan came face to face with Josepha and his son, who had grown so tall that he scarcely knew him. For a moment the Olechnys stood still, then they rushed weeping into each other's arms. Last week they prepared to go to Canada, which had accepted them as farmer immigrants. The Olechnys hoped it would be their last trip for a while...
Hollywood-bound for this week's wedding of her son, Cinemactor James Stewart, 41, to Socialite Mrs. Gloria Hatrick McLean, 31, Mrs. Elizabeth Stewart was plainly pleased at his abdication as the town's most eligible bachelor. Said she: "I'm so very glad that Jimmy is getting married. I was kind of worried that he wouldn...