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Extracts from the book	Poems from the book
Time of Fear Journey into exile Exile False Freedom Waiting/not knowing Passage to safety Aftermath New Horizons	Maria Waridoda The moment of arrest, 10th February 1940 Feliks Konarski The young, freed but physically worn out male deportees hoping to prove their fitness to enlist in the newly formed Polish Forces commanded by General Wladyshaw Anders in South Russia 1941. Feliks Konarski The Communists' complete erasing of any trace of the Osadas in Eastern Poland so that her pre-war citizens are made to appear at best dreaming if not completely deluded into thinking their homes ever existed.