Frank The Pole
In 2005 I chose to live in Poland because of a guy called Frank The Pole.
Franciszek Dziomba was born in October 1919 in Mazury to a family of peasant farmers. Life was hard and his family would have to bury potatoes in the ground to protect them from the freezing winters. He first worked as a baker but found he didn’t like getting up early in the morning so he became a coffin-maker. He worked in the sheds behind his boss’ grand house and it was in the shadow of this grand house that Frank’s carpentry skills were born.
