![]() ![]() ![]() Realising that to remain meant almost certain death, Rawicz, along with six companions, escaped. ![]() On 19 November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to twenty-five years in a gulag.Īfter a three-month journey in the dead of winter to Siberia, life in a Soviet labour camp meant enduring hunger, extreme cold, untreated wounds and illnesses and facing the daily risk of arbitrary execution. Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. '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' ![]()
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