Figure 1.--World War II was the greatest struggle in world history involving contless millions of people and incredible stories. One such story involved a Clevelabnd scool boy who incredably was exiled to Siberia!. Leonardo was a 15 year old Polish-American living an average American life in Cleveland, Ohio. Leonardo went on an adventure in 1937 to study with with his uncle, a priest, in Poland. He was there when the NAZIs and Soviets invaded Poland and launched World War II.

World War II was the greatest struggle in world history involving contless millions of people and incredible stories. One such story involved a Clevelabnd scool boy who incredably was exiled to Siberia!. Leonardo was a 15 year old [the age may be slightly off] Polish-American living an average American life in Cleveland, Ohio. Leonardo went on an adventure in 1937 to study with with his uncle, a priest, in Poland. He was there when the NAZIs and Soviets invaded Poland and launched World War II. They were in eastern Poland, the area the Soviets seized. The Soviets launched barbarous actions against the Poles, similar to what the NAZIs did, but without the Jewish element. Many Poles were arrested. Some were shit, others were deported to Siberia. The deportations were not well organized and many died bcause of the lack of food abd shelter. Catholic clerics we targeted by the NKVD, but we do not know what happened to his uncle. Leonardo aong with other Poles arrested by the NKVD must have been deported in box cars to the desolate Kirkhiz Steepes (modern Kyrgyzstan). His parents asked for help from the State Department and they managed to get the Soviet Government to release him and he reached home aboard a United Airlines flight, quite a diiference from hiow he got to Central Asia (February 1941). He must have had amazing experiences. Unfortunately, as far as we know, he never wrote any of them down. Pluto may have served in the Navy during the War.

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