TheLongWalk

I escaped a Soviet Gulag Camp and settled in Nottingham. This is my story. Tweets by @TheSpaceLathe & @annawakey for @dawnoftheunread 'Boooks'

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Follow our Christmas countdown uncovering 12 lost writers of Nott's past! Don't leave the dead unread @DawnoftheUnread
#4 SLAVOMIR RAWICZ

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The donation of the CFA archive is of such significance that we have changed our name to National Fairground and Circus Archive

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I feature in chapter 2. The Long Wait... https://t.co/WZDrK3UAM3

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Michael Gove launches bid to be next PM as 'candidate of change' https://t.co/8781nuk0kO

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#MondayBlogs: The Nottingham Essay – Slavomir Rawicz https://t.co/czYek0xiSY

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The Long Walk: An Overview By Lezsek Gliniecki https://t.co/8nJfCVdsiE #longwalk #thelongwalk @SlavomirRawicz

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Had a lovely time visiting @RvkCityofLit to discuss @NottmCityOfLit & a potential collaboration for Untold Stories...

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I felt suddenly bereft of friends, bereft of everything, as desolate and lonely as a man could be.

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I walked towards the door. Zaro and Kolemenos followed behind. They kept on walking.

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I had resolved to make the parting from Zaro and Kolemenos as painless as possible.

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Transport was arranged for me to join up with Polish forces fighting with the Allies in the Middle East.

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Our story got round. One went round with his hat collecting cigarettes, money, and chocolate.

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My night had been a month long.

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Each day I ate half my bread and slyly tucked the remainder in my pillow case.

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At night I screamed and raved in madness. I ran from the Russians all over again, I crossed my mountains and deserts.

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We were examine by doctors, weighed, measured, given a bath, and decked out in pyjamas.

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We received white, crisp new underwear, bush shirts, canvas shoes, and to top the lot, light felt hats.

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There's only one place to read DH Lawrence...naked in the countryside, near prickly colourful distractions.

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We saw one another – the character of the faces of men who for 12 months - 4000 miles - had shared the struggle for survival.

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The delousing was a thorough affair. Head and body hair was shorn off.