Refugee Memoirs: Is the grass really greener on the other side..?

The author of Refugee Memoirs took on to emigrate out of the comfort of his family home and native country, Poland, as a teenager, not knowing perhaps, the full, life-changing implications laying ahead.

Adventure and the unknown were the real drivers, under the mask of a ‘political refugee’, as was the requirement to qualify for the status and the protection, under the Geneva Refugee Convention in ‘The West’.

There were tens of thousands of refugees in the camps of Vienna, Austria and elsewhe...