Wesley Adamczyk is the author of When God Looked the Other Way, published by University of Chicago Press; major contributor to Children of the Katyń Massacre, published by McFarland and Co.; and a contributor to Polskie dzieci na tulaczych szlakach 1939-1950, published in 2008 by IPN in Poland.  He is also an activist who has devoted his retirement years to the dissemination of information about the deportation of Polish people to Siberia and the Katyn massacre.

Born in Warsaw in 1933, Mr. Adamczyk was deported to Siberia in 1940 and escaped in 1942. His mother died soon after they reached freedom in Persia. Only later, Mr. Adamczyk learned that his father had been murdered in the Katyń massacre. Mr. Adamczyk came to the United States in 1952, at the age of 16, after his ten-year odyssey that took him across four continents and 12 countries. He is a graduate of DePaul University where he obtained a degree in chemistry and philosophy.