EPILOGUE

On January 25, 1945, we left Liebenau camp for the United States. In February, the Russian Army "liberated" the prisoner of war camp where my husband had spent five and a half years. He returned to Poland.

We corresponded during the ensuing years, while I taught school in Chicago. We planned to get together to start a new life again with our two daughters. In the meantime, Stalin held a strong grip on Poland and I could not return. Our government was not issuing passports to a communist country.

Finally, with the death of Stalin, restrictions were loosened. When it was safe for me to go to Poland, I decided to travel by ship in July, 1957.

While on board the vessel, I received a radiogram informing me that my husband had died. I arrived in Poland two days after the burial.

[Editor's Note: Radzia Niewiarowski sent her manuscript, telling the story of her incarceration by the Nazis as an American in Poland, to many book publishers, but it was refused at a time when such stories about Polish victims were not considered commercially viable. Polonia Today agreed to publish the story in serial form immediately upon receiving it. The story was not only an immediate success, it remained the most popular serial ever published by the newsmagazine until "Escape From Hell" over a decade later. Radzia moved to Belgium in her latter years, where she resided with a relative. She was in her 90s when she died.]