Julian Padowicz
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Julian Padowicz

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Julian Padowicz was seven years old, living in Warsaw, Poland, and Jewish, when WW II broke out and German bombs began to fall around him. Julian’s nanny, the only mother figure he had known, left to be with her own people, his stepfather joined the army, and Julian was suddenly confronted by the virtual stranger who was his beautiful, socialite mother, Barbara. Over the next eighteen months, Barbara would prove resourceful and courageous, as she and her son survived German attacks and Soviet occupation, then made a daring and dramatic escape over the Carpathian Mountains, eventually arriving in America. What Barbara was never able to do was gain any understanding of what little boys needed or how they operated. Retired after a 35-year documentary filmmaking career, Julian Padowicz set about telling the story of his struggles with German bombs, Soviet occupiers, his own spiritual ambivalence, learning difficulties, and the ambitions of his socially climbing mother, to grasp his share of the American Dream. He tells it with poignancy and humor in four memoirs. “Mother and Me: Escape from Warsaw 1939” was named “Book of the Year” by ForeWord Magazine in 2006. It was followed by “A Ship in the Harbor,” “Loves of Yulian,” and “Growing up American.” There is also a young readers’ version of the escape story, entitled, “Escaping the Holocaust.” To deal with his more recent life, he turned to fiction, creating a character he considered “much like myself, only funnier.” A. Jeremy “Kip” Kippur is also a refugee from the Holocaust trying to lead a “normal” life in his retirement, despite his accumulated dysfunctions. Settling in the fictional village of Venice on the Massachusetts coast, with his compassionate and creative, but accident prone wife, Amanda, Kip does his best to deal with whacky neighbors and ghosts from his troubled past in a series of humorous domestic adventures including, “Writer’s Block,” “The Best Sunset in Venice,” “A Scandal in Venice,” “Alexander’s Part-time Band,” and “A Menace in Venice.” Padowicz lives in Stamford, Connecticut where he is often seen out for a morning run with a pocket-full of fliers promoting his books “for anyone who makes the mistake of being friendly.”
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