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3 unusual facts about Zieliński brothers escape


Zieliński brothers escape

Currently, Adam Zieliński, a graduate of a technical college, lives in Vetlanda with a Polish wife and two children.

Four years later, Polish movie director Maciej Dejczer, together with Cezary Harasimowicz (they co-wrote the screenplay) made a film 300 Miles to Heaven, which is based on the boys’ escape, with some facts, including details of the escape, changed.

In 1985, two teenage brothers from the village of Żyraków (at the Wisłoka river, near Dębica), southeastern Poland, decided to flee Communist-controlled Poland.



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