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He was just a kid, 16, too young to fight. “He escaped and found his way to England and found a group of Poles who formed a Polish army. “They treated him like a slave,” said his son Dr. One day when he was going to a market to buy bread for his family, German SS officers grabbed him and took him to a farm, where they put him to work. Rudek retired from the newspaper in 1991 and died 11 years later at age 75.īorn in Poland, Rudek was 13 when the Nazis invaded his country.