In 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, 11-year-old Lonek and his family fled to the east. When Russia invaded Poland, the family was imprisoned in a Soviet gulag. In 1941, when Germany attacked Russia, about 100,000 Poles were released from gulags and prisons and joined General Anders on a march of thousands of miles to join the Allied Forces in the Middle East. Lonek was one of the 1,000 Jewish children who traveled with them to freedom. Illustrated with photographs.