Former WNY Radio Show Producer Writes Book

Book Presentation on You Tube "Part One - A Franciscan Odyssey"

"Part One" of a book presentation has been uploaded on You Tube: "A Franciscan Odyssey" authored by a former WNY radio show producer, Father Lucjan Krolikowski of Chicopee, MA and translated by the book presenter: Dr. Gosia Brykczynska of London England.

For over 30 years Rev. Krolikowski was producer of the Father Justin Rosary Hour Radio Program in Athol Springs near Buffalo, NY. The WNY radio experiences are discussed in the book.

The one hour presentation by Dr. Brykczynska was held at the Penn State University College of Medicine in Hershey PA, on Sunday, November 11. Three more "Parts" will be uploaded soon.

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This video presentation in four parts is about an autobiographical book of a WW II participant, Rev. Lucjan Krolikowski, OFM Conv., who was a seminarian in Poland studying under St. Maximilian Kolbe. St. Maximilian was a WW II martyr, later canonized a saint, who was arrested and murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz.

However, Lucjan was arrested by the Russian Secret Police, the dreaded NKVD. He became a Soviet Gulag prisoner with a million and a half other Poles. He was later released by Stalin with thousands of other Polish Gulag prisoners to join the Polish Free Army to fight the Nazis.

However, some 20,000 Polish officers that were supposed to be released were killed in a terrible massacre in the Katyn Forest by the Communist Soviet Army.

After the war Lucjan was ordained a Catholic priest and adopted 150 Polish orphaned children who were also incarcerated in the Soviet Gulag where their parents died.

This amazing story should be made into a movie. Unfortunately, it is part of a much too underreported aspect of WW II history to interest modern movie makers. It certainly merits our attention of the hardships suffered by the Poles on the Eastern Front. The news of the human tragedies and ethnic cleansing were largely ignored by the Western mass media. This story is certainly a significant part of WW II history concerning religious persecution of Catholics and their clergy.

The public can now read the truth of what really happened to over one and a half million Poles! This is a very interesting book which is summarized in the hour long presentation by Dr. Brykczynska about the Eastern Front of WW II which still continues to be under-reported by historians and the Western mass media.