Retracing a 1,300-Mile Escape From a Soviet Gulag in WWII

One day in 1945, in the waning days of World War II, Anton Iwanowski and his brother Wiktor escaped from a Russian gulag and set off across an unforgiving landscape, desperate to return home to Poland. They dodged gunfire, slept outdoors, and hopped trains. It took three months, but they made it.

Nearly 70 years later, Anton Iwanowski’s grandson Michal made the same 1,360-mile trip, following a map Wiktor had drawn years before. His expansive, lonely photos of the frigid terrain they crossed fill the pages of his photo book Clear of People. “This is a tribute…

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Retracing a 1,300-Mile Escape From a Soviet Gulag in WWII