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Sławomir Rawicz
Polish -British author, supposed escaped Gulag prisoner · Poland · On the map · Writers · Lived 1915 to 2004 · aged 88
Sławomir Rawicz was a Polish Army lieutenant who was imprisoned by the NKVD after the Soviet invasion of Poland.
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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 begun a long journey south on foot, supposedly travelling through the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and the Himalayas before finally reaching India in the winter of 1942.
Country
Poland
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1915 to 2004 · aged 88
