When God Looked the Other Way

A personal history of one family’s hardships at the dawn of World War II, when thousands of Poles were forced into exile by the Soviet government. “A finely wrought memoir of loss and survival…. With this work, Adamczyk has brought illumination and honor to the families of the thousands who suffered the same terrible fate.”— Publishers Weekly In the shadow of the Holocaust, the Soviet Union’s quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens is often overlooked. Wesley Adamczyk’s gripping memoir