Mother makes contacts with guides who are willing to take us through forests back to the German side. However, the guides are not keen on a party which includes a yapping dog and a crippled teenager, but additional rewards and assurances that the dog understands the gravity of the situation finally persuade them. September 1939: Hitler invades Poland. Through the eyes of the 4-year-old boy he was then,
Adam Czerniawski recalls his experiences of war-torn Poland and his family's escape to Istanbul.