A boy comes of age under an oppressive, cruel socialist government and watches as it slowly but surely distorts his family, his school and even his own thoughts.
January 6, 1916 in Lublin, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland]
May 19, 1937 in Bolechów, Stanislawowskie, Poland [now Bolekhiv, Ukraine]
April 21, 1940 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
June 21, 1947 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
April 21, 1931 in Drogomysl, Slaskie, Poland
June 1, 1949 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
July 24, 1932 in Chorzów, Slaskie, Poland
March 20, 1932 in Mniów, Swietokrzyskie, Poland
October 23, 1919 in Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland
27 June 1952, Torun, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
June 2, 1958 in Kamienna Góra, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
October 18, 1950 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
21 February 1952, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
