I have just finished editing my father’s memoirs. These 351 pages are a powerful testimony to the times in which my father lived, including his forced exile to Kazakhstan, at the age of seven). The large picture below (click to enlarge) shows Bohdan Kurowski (my father, then a little boy) and other members of the family in 1938—a year before the nazis and the soviets destroyed their lives by introducing the war they (the nazis and the soviets) had concocted.