Lori asked Martha Hall Kelly:

I found myself hoping that Kasia would escape post WWII Poland before she was unable to leave and locked behind the Iron Curtain. I spent several weeks last summer in Leipzig, Germany at a German teachers' seminar and learned a lot about what life with the East German Stasi had been. The parallels to concentration camps controls made me want Kasia to get out and not suffer twice. How did you feel about this?

Martha Hall Kelly Such an interesting question, Lori. I agree, I wanted Kasia to get out and not suffer twice as well, but sadly, most of the Polish survivors of the experiments did go home, desperate to see their families and try and piece their lives back together. There was a window of escape from Poland before Communism became firmly rooted, but for many it was too late. I find it so sad that the rabbits were considered traitors by their own government simply because they had been imprisoned in a Nazi camp on German soil.

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