An Interesting Life [English]

History of Adam Motyl-Szary narrated by son MarianTranslation into Polish masterfully corrected  by Ewa Suchorzewska. Naples, Florida31 March 2016 I am writing because my children…

One of the difficulties in finding and verifying the information I heard from my father and read in the official documents he left behind is…

Historical background from : After securing the neutrality of the Soviet Union (through the August 1939 German-Soviet Pact of Nonaggression), Germany started World War II…

So Adam and his two brothers-in-laws left for Russia. Although the pass that my father had for travel to Russia helped a few times, they…

With all of the Poles in the USSR either by choice or deported, the Soviet military decided to take advantage of this free manpower by…

The first time Łódź (pronounced "wooj" in Polish) or Lodz appeared in the written record was in the year 1332. The name literally means "boat"…

Once my parents knew that they were leaving Poland, they started getting ready in earnest. It involved mostly selling things that would not be useful…

Things started changing for the better. At Solel Boneh Adam was in his element, working with timber, and he loved it. When he was estimating…