Waclw Bazezinski Essay

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Jozef Bazezinski was the richest man in all of Poland. Right before World War two started, Jozef married Helena. Together they had eight kids, seven boys, and one girl. When the war started, seven of the kids joined the underground army. Fighting for Poland’s freedom, four of them died between the ages of seventeen and twenty-seven. The underground army was a small army of elite fighters that hid in the forest and did small raids on German places strongholds, killing as many Germans as possible and taking anything useful. Waclw Bazezinski was one of the children who did not yet die in the underground army. Still, in the underground army, he married Wiera and they had three kids. When the children were still very young Waclw got put in jail for joining the underground army. Wiera bribed officials to get him released. One of the kids named Danuta grew up and married Rafal Berezowski. They had one kid, Mike Berezowski. In Germany, the Polish were oppressed, and if you even had money you still couldn’t buy food. Store shelves were always empty. Danuta and Rafal wanted the best for Mike Berezowski, so they said to German Officials that they were going on vacation and fled Poland. All they had with them at that point was the clothes on their backs and very little money. In Canada, it was free and there were lots of opportunities. They waited at multiple embassies in Asia, and when …show more content…
Mike Berezowski went to school in Canada and picked up English through a combination of learning support and his father and him learning together. When they were in Canada, they lived in an apartment. There was not much in the apartment, but there was always lots of love. That was all they could give each other. When Mike transferred to a school in Canada, he did not know English and had no friends. He transferred into high school, and had trouble making friends easily, but through it all, he graduated a straight A’s

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