The Last Lancer
The Last Lancer An intimate story of a Polish family torn apart by war: of heartbreak, loss, and survival against the odds.Julian Czerkawski was born in 1926 near Lwow, in Polish Galicia, on a farm…
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The Last Lancer
An intimate story of a Polish family torn apart by war: of heartbreak, loss, and survival against the odds.Julian Czerkawski was born in 1926 near Lwow, in Polish Galicia, on a farm with fertile grain fields and orchards. Soviet annexation and then, in 1941, the German occupation of Lwow changed everything. He was the son of a Polish lancer--one of the famous cavalrymen who carried forward the legacy of the hussar knights.But there would be no idyllic childhood for young Julian.
Fortunate to escape after the war with his life, eventually he made his way to the UK, where he married and started a family. At the age of 18, he was sent to a labour camp. But an ache remained for the people and places of his childhood memories, even if he spoke of them only rarely.In 2022, Putin's war in Ukraine and the sight of refugees passing through Lviv--the former