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Andrew Wrobel (1908-1996) Living a life much like that of his grandfather, Andrew Wrobel went to school in Groń, tended the fields and the sheep and walked with his mother up over the verdant hill then down into the next valley to the centuries-old church in Białka Tatrzańska. As a teenager, he listened to his parents' tales of life in America, but he had no expectation of leaving Poland until Fate, in the form of international political events intervened.
In the mid-1920's, the nascent Polish state was prosecuting a war of opportunity against the fledgling Bolshevik regime in the Soviet Union. For a while, they experienced great success, at one point even conquering Kiev. But the Soviets eventually gained the upper hand and drove the Polish army back across the Versailles Treaty border. This was an unpopular war and Andrew, at 17, was approaching draft age. What would he do? Meanwhile, across the ocean, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, young Marianna Blaszinski and her brother Aleksander would pose for this picture:
This page was last update on April 11, 2005
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