In the Shade of the Baobab Tree
From captivity to an enchanting world of freedom – growing up in equatorial Africa.
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2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Interviews
2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Features
Once Upon a Time in Africa…
Former students from some of the worlds’ most exclusive schools, they came from all over the world to attend the 25th reunion in Wroclaw. And oh, they sure know how to have fun!
2014 Vol. 6 No. 1 — Winter-Spring / Books
Poland’s Daughter: How I Met Basia, Hitchhiked to Italy and Learned About Love, War and Exile
A many layered story about the sentimental education of an American student in post-war Europe told with wit, sensitivity and elegance.
2011 Vol. 3 No. 4 — Winter / Features
Hacienda Santa Rosa: a Polish Refuge in Mexico
A harrowing 20-thousand kilometer odyssey ended with an unforgettable welcome in Mexico. Piotr Piwowarczyk, who is making a film about it, tells the story.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 3 — Fall / Films
“New Zealand on Screen” Releases New Film
The 1966 documentary tells the story of 734 Polish children who were adopted by New Zealand in 1944 as WWII refugees.
2010 Vol. 2 No.1 — Spring / Features / Interviews
Recovering a Stolen Childhood
Wesley Adamczyk survived deportation to Siberia and exile to chronicle that journey in When God Looked the Other Way, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2004. His father, Jan Adamczyk, was one of tens of thousands of Polish officers killed in the Katyń massacre.
2010 Vol. 2 No.1 — Spring / Books
The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom
With the Soviet dystopia as background, the book reads like a terror-filled adventure – all the more so because it’s non-fiction.
2009 — Winter / Features
The Noble and Compassionate Heart of the Maharaja Jam Saheb Digvijay Sinhi
Between August 1942 and November 1946, close to 1,000 Polish children and their guardians lived in idyllic settlements on the Kathiawar Peninsula in India not far from the summer residence of the Maharaja Jam Saheb Digvijay Sinhi. They had come at the Maharaja’s invitation from orphanages in Ashkabad, the capital of Turkmenistan, and Samarkand.
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