How Wojciek's Stamp Collection Began - A True Survival Story

This is a true survival story; it happened to my family shortly before thousands of people were murdered in Slonim, the town in Poland - now Belarus - where they lived.

My uncle Wojciek has a large, valuable collection of stamps from Poland; he has been at this for more than seventy years, but the whole thing started with a matchbox filled with stamps and a dollar bill that saved his life, that of my mother, and my grandmother as well... 

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