5/19/2023 0 Comments Soldier Bear by Bibi Dumon Tak![]() ![]() This was perfect for Peter, Stanislav, Janusz, Lolek and Pavel who formed a group that was to be part of a convoy taking equipment to the British camp in Palestine. ![]() After completing a short military training course with the British, the Polish soldiers were put into groups of five. In the camp they met Janusz and Lolek who served the food as well as another Polish soldier named Pavel. Peter and Stanislav found one another and reported to a British army camp. They crossed the Russian border into Iran along with hundreds of other Polish prisoners. However, although the Polish soldiers wanted to fight Germany they wanted to also free Poland from both the Germans and the Russians.So many Polish soldiers tried to escape, among them both Peter and Stanislav. Two years later when Germany invaded Russia, the Polish soldiers were freed in the hopes they would join the Russians in fighting the Germans. ![]() They had tried to stick together and promised to try to find one another if they ever became separated. Two friends, Peter Prendys and Stanislav Lubanski were in the Russian-occupied part of Poland and were sent to work in different Russian factories. After the country was conquered, Polish soldiers were sent either to a German or Russian prison-of-war camp depending on what part of the country they were in. During World War II, Poland was invaded by the Germans from the west and the Russians from the east, dividing the country in two. ![]()
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