George Labedz

The Boy Who Would Be Free: Memoirs of a White Slave George Labedz

The Boy Who Would Be Free is more than just another memoir... it is the inspirational story of a Polish boy who grows up in extreme poverty during the Great Depression, and does battle with starvation, the school priest, a class bully, and the school hygienist. Then World War II begins right over his head as Poland is attacked by the ferocious Nazi blitzkrieg. The boy endures, only to be shipped to Germany against his will by the Nazis and forced into slave labor for a large chemical factory where noxious fumes, deadly explosions, and renewed malnutrition take a heavy toll on his health. And that's just the beginning. The memoirs are filled with his constant fears of starvation and Nazi brutality, yet within these pages, a story of compassion slowly unfolds, and with it, hope. The Boy Who Would Be Free is a haunting account of the coming of age of an extraordinary human being during an extraordinary period in world history. It is the true story of George E. Labedz.