1.0FOTO8https://www.foto8.com/liverich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="gUojdnVeJ0"><a href="https://www.foto8.com/live/the-neighbours-by-blazej-marczak/theneighbours2/">Dr Kazimierz Durkacz</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.foto8.com/live/the-neighbours-by-blazej-marczak/theneighbours2/embed/#?secret=gUojdnVeJ0" width="600" height="338" title="“Dr Kazimierz Durkacz” — FOTO8" data-secret="gUojdnVeJ0" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(c,d){"use strict";var e=!1,o=!1;if(d.querySelector)if(c.addEventListener)e=!0;if(c.wp=c.wp||{},c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage);else if(c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(!t);else if(!(t.secret||t.message||t.value));else if(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret));else{for(var r,s,a,i=d.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),n=d.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),l=0;l<n.length;l++)n[l].style.display="none";for(l=0;l<i.length;l++)if(r=i[l],e.source!==r.contentWindow);else{if(r.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3<(s=parseInt(t.value,10)))s=1e3;else if(~~s<200)s=200;r.height=s}if("link"===t.message)if(s=d.createElement("a"),a=d.createElement("a"),s.href=r.getAttribute("src"),a.href=t.value,!o.test(a.protocol));else if(a.host===s.host)if(d.activeElement===r)c.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)c.addEventListener("message",c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),d.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),c.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(o);else{o=!0;for(var e,t,r,s=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),a=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),i=d.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),n=0;n<i.length;n++){if(!(r=(t=i[n]).getAttribute("data-secret")))r=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),t.src+="#?secret="+r,t.setAttribute("data-secret",r);if(s||a)(e=t.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),t.parentNode.replaceChild(e,t);t.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:r},"*")}}}}(window,document); </script> https://i0.wp.com/www.foto8.com/live/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/blazejmarczak/TheNeighbours2.jpg?fit=1330%2C885&ssl=11330885Dr Kazimierz Durkacz, from Poland, was born in 1919 in Drohobycz (today’s Ukraine). Shortly before WW II started he joined the Polish Army Forces while continuing his medical studies. After Hitler’s attack of Poland, followed shortly by Stalin, his military unit was moved to Hungary. He and other soldiers were interned in a transit camp. The Hungarian government was under pressure from Germany and soon became anti-Polish but the people remained supportive. Kazimierz said that they helped him to escape from the camp and gave him money to hire a driver, which took him and his fellow soldiers to the border with Yugoslavia from where he travelled by train to France to join the exiled Polish Army. After few weeks in the military camp he was transferred to England and later to Scotland where he was protecting the coast as the German invasion was expected here. In 1941 he joined Polish School of Medicine in Edinburgh. Now he is retired dentist and living in Scotland. One day when I was helping him with shopping, a Scottish lady (born to Ukrainian father) recognised him and said: “I remember this gentleman; he was the best dentist in Edinburgh”