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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Olechny lost two fingers of his right hand fighting the Bolsheviks in Poland after World War I. When the Polish government rewarded him with a 75-acre farm, he thought he was settled for life; the farthest he and wife Josepha ever got from their farm was nearby Pinsk. But during World War II the Olechnys, like millions of others who had thought they were settled for life, started wandering. They covered more ground than most...
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...
...cousins were not glad to see Jan. There was scarcely enough food to go around. The Nazis seized him, sent him as a slave laborer to an Austrian farm near the Italian border. There news reached him that his wife & child had been sent to a labor camp in Siberia (actually they had gone to Pinega Camp, in the frozen forests near Archangel...
...thrust two Lugers into shoulder holsters under his long blue gown, then stopped in a back-alley opium den to share a pipe with an underworld crony, Nai Sakon. The Dwarf complained: "Pramote has doublecrossed us all. Now he has a racing stable, a new Packard and a beautiful wife. We have nothing but worry...
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...