Frank J. Jasinski From an Oak Tree

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Frank, is a native of Poland, who with unfailingvigor, survived the many ordeals he faced as a young teen in Europe duringWWII. At the onset of the War, he and his family were stripped of their homein Poland by the Russian Army and sent to endure imprisonment at a Russianinterment camp in desolate Siberia. Franks spirited perseverance found himas a fourteen-year old soldier in the newly formed Polish Army, where heproudly served in the Middle East. At the wars end he and his surviving familymiraculously reunited and emigrated from England to the San Francisco BayArea. There, Frank married Dorothy, raised a family, and had a successfulcareer in the automotive industry until his retirement in 1990. Frank, at thevibrant age of 82, with Dorothy, now married over 57 years, make Rocklin,nestled at the base of the Sierra foothills of Northern California, their home. Along with keeping active and spunky, family and friends are Franks priorities. Frank remains committed to his Polish comrades by being commander of thePolish Veterans of WWII for Post Number 49 in the San Francisco Bay Area. One of his life-long goals has been to chronicle his story.