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Sławomir Rawicz was born on 1 September 1915 in Pinsk, the son of a landowner. He received private primary education and went on to study architecture in 1932. In 1937 he joined the Polish Army Reserve and underwent the cadet officer school. In July 1939 he married Vera, his first wife.
Dec 4, 2010 · The story was The Long Walk, a gripping account of a Polish officer's imprisonment in the Soviet gulag in 1940, his escape and then a trek of 4,000 miles (6,437km) from Siberia to India, surviving ...
Box office. $24.1 million [ 1 ] The Way Back is a 2010 American survival film directed by Peter Weir, from a screenplay by Weir and Keith Clarke. The film is inspired by The Long Walk (1956), the memoir by former Polish prisoner of war Sławomir Rawicz, who claimed to have escaped from a Soviet Gulag and walked 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to freedom ...
Released in 2010, “The Way Back” is a gripping film that tells the harrowing true story of a group of prisoners who escape from a Soviet gulag during World War II and embark on a treacherous journey to freedom. Directed by Peter Weir, the movie takes inspiration from the memoir “The Long Walk” by Slavomir Rawicz, which recounts his own ...
Dec 9, 2005 · In 1939, Slavomir Rawicz, a lieutenant in the Polish cavalry attached to infantry on the Russian front, was captured by the Russians and sent to one of Josef Stalin’s labor camps in Siberia ...
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Slavomir Rawicz (Sławomir Rawicz) was a Polish Army lieutenant who was imprisoned by the Soviets after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland.In a ghost-written book called The Long Walk, he claimed that in 1941 he and six others had escaped from a Siberian Gulag camp and walked over 6,500 km (4,000 mi) south, through the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and the Himalayas to finally reach British India in ...
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Apr 1, 2016 · "I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves."--Slavomir Rawicz In 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk--a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats.
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