Description
Correspondence, writings, reports, studies, printed matter, and photographs relating mainly to analysis of Soviet and Warsaw
Pact armed forces.
Background
Michał, or Michael, Sadykiewicz was born in 1924 into a Polish-Jewish family in the large industrial city of Łódź. He received
his primary and most of his secondary education in his home town. When Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia attacked Poland
in September 1939, the Sadykiewicz family took refuge in Eastern Poland, which was soon occupied by the Soviets. They then
moved further east to the Russian city of Tambov, southeast of Moscow. Sadykiewicz completed his secondary education there
in 1941, about the time that Germany attacked its erstwhile Soviet ally. The seventeen-year-old Sadykiewicz volunteered for
the Red Army. Two years later, when Polish units were organized under Soviet command, he was transferred to one of them, and
during the next two years fought along the battle route from Moscow to Berlin.
Extent
12 manuscript boxes
(5.0 Linear Feet)
Restrictions
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Availability
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.