From Exile to Freedom: Historical Memoir of the Rodzinka Family

It is true-you cannot find anything that happened to us in any history books!. This story is dedicated to Katarzyna (Grzasko) Rodzinka, our mother. She loved us deeply and hurt deeply when any one of us was separated from her. From 1939 to 1962, we never were a complete family. Yet she did everything possible to search for us when we were not with her and to take care of us (when we were separated) as best she could. Mom was never happy until her whole family came together in America.. It becomes totally overwhelming to try to understand the scope of WWII and of the atrocities committed just because of the desire of a few insane men who wanted to rule supreme over other countries! Torture was used on a wide scale. People were scalded with boiling water, had their extremities cut off, eyes gouged out, and perpetrated even more unbearable horrors. These atrocities took place in the bulging make-shift prisons in Poland. The Russians were second in brutality only to the German Holocaust.. This is true of what befell 1 ½ to 2 million Polish people (including some Jews, Ukrainians, Belorussians, and others) during World War II. This is a story of EXILE to the Soviet Union on the orders of Josef Stalin, and in due time, disbursement of the "remnant of survivors" to many countries throughout the world. And this is my family's history and the encapsulated events that surrounded our lives.