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When God Looked the Other Way (Paperback, New edition)
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When God Looked the Other Way (Paperback, New edition)
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Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's
quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that
included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian
governments only recently admitted culpability. Standing in the
shadow of the Holocaust, this episode of European history is often
overlooked. Wesley Adamczyk's gripping memoir, "When God Looked the
Other Way," now gives voice to the hundreds of thousands of victims
of Soviet barbarism.
Adamczyk was a young Polish boy when he was deported with his
mother and siblings from their comfortable home in Luck to Soviet
Siberia in May of 1940. His father, a Polish Army officer, was
taken prisoner by the Red Army and eventually became one of the
victims of the Katyn massacre, in which tens of thousands of Polish
officers were slain at the hands of the Soviet secret police. The
family's separation and deportation in 1940 marked the beginning of
a ten-year odyssey in which the family endured fierce living
conditions, meager food rations, chronic displacement, and rampant
disease, first in the Soviet Union and then in Iran, where
Adamczyk's mother succumbed to exhaustion after mounting a
harrowing escape from the Soviets. Wandering from country to
country and living in refugee camps and the homes of strangers,
Adamczyk struggled to survive and maintain his dignity amid the
horrors of war.
"When God Looked the Other Way" is a memoir of a boyhood lived in
unspeakable circumstances, a book that not only illuminates one of
the darkest periods of European history but also traces the loss of
innocence and the fight against despair that took root in one young
boy. It is also a book that offers astark picture of the
unforgiving nature of Communism and its champions. Unflinching and
poignant, W"hen God Looked the Other Way" will stand as a testament
to the trials of a family during wartime and an intimate chronicle
of episodes yet to receive their historical due.
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