Jan Adam Romer (a.k.a. John Adam Romer) was an electrical engineer and reservist in the Polish Army during World War II. He was arrested by the NKVD (Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del) and sent to several forced labor camps in the Gulag. This collection is composed of the typescript "My two years spent in Soviet Russia under Stalin" by Jan A. Romer, a version of the typescript edited by his son, John H. Romer, and copies of Jan A. Romer's war records (April 1942 to January 1947) from the Great Britain Ministry of Defence and the Polish Squadron of the Royal Air Force.

Jan Adam Romer (a.k.a. John Adam Romer) was born in Lviv (now Ukraine) on November 22, 1915, to General Jan Edward Romer and Stefania Romer. At the onset of World War II, he was an electrical engineer and reservist in the Polish Army. He was arrested by the NKVD (Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del) and sent to several forced labor camps in the Gulag. Due to the Sikorski-Mayski agreement, Jan Romer was released and joined the Polish Army in the USSR. Romer immigrated to England via Iran and India, where he served as a navigator and a member of the Polish Squadron of the Royal Air Force until the end of the war. Later, he immigrated to Toronto, Canada, where he taught engineering. Romer eventually settled in the United States.

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