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DRAWINGS by Aleksander TOPOLSKI
Courtesy of Joan Eddis-Topolski
Drawings are included in his books:
Without Vodka - Wartime Adventures in Russia
and Without a Roof (Bez Dachu)
Bukovinians line up in a dungeon cell watched by Soviet guard (on left)
By sleigh to Kirov (Vyatka) with Uncle Misha
Commissioner at Farab tries to lure Polish wanderers to board barges
Dec. 11, 1939 Topolski and other Poles head for the Romanian border
Dr. Epstein sings Wagner in Czortkow Prison
Galya distracts train guard while others carry off a case of soldiers grub
Horodenka's Ormianska Street where Topolski family lived (house on right)
July 1941 Kiev labour prison camp after being hit by German bombs
Ploughing with oxen on a kolkhoz in Uzbekistan
Polish army in Uzbekistan had British uniforms but Russian tents
Polish cavalry officer at Kirov station tells about newly formed Polish Army in USSR
Polish prisoners caged in Stolypinka rail car en route to Ukraine
Polish prisoners passing time in Chernigov in former army barracks
Polish soldiers, in British uniforms, resting during manoeuvers
Public Prosecutor Godlewski arrested for stealing coal
Recruits seeking 2nd Polish Corps in USSR
Recruits seeking 2nd Polish Corps in USSR
Self-portrait drawn in 1942 - Note Soviet army tents
September 1939 - Luftwaffe bombs Aleks's hometown, Horodenka
Recent self-portrait
Soviet guard Dumpling ogled by Spiegel
The Beautiful Zhenya befriends Aleks
The train robbers' girlfriends on a train somewhere south of Tashkent
Uncle Misha's izba in Northern Russia. Aleks shared its sleeping loft with six people
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