After the war, the author becomes a translator in East Germany for the Russian occupiers, studies at the art academy in Dresden, and eventually finds work as an artist. In 1948, after marrying a German woman, he escapes the Soviet zone, is brutally interrogated in a Polish
Jan Kamienski was born in Poznan, Poland, in 1923 and in 1949 he immigrated to Winnipeg. From 1958 to 1980 he was an editorial cartoonist and writer, art critic, and columnist for the Winnipeg Tribune. Between 1980 and 1988, he was an editorial cartoonist for the Winnipeg Sun. He lives in Winnipeg.