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In The Garden of Memory

Part Six: John the Savior

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Peter L.W. Osnos
Sep 30, 2025
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Baghdad, 1940. A shabby hotel in a chaotic city. Jozef, Marta, and Robert Osnos arrived, desperate for a place to stay. The proprietor noted their Polish passports and disappeared for a moment.

“He came back with a tall slender man who said in Polish, ‘What’s going on?’ then something in Arabic, then again in Polish, then arranged to have a room for ever…

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