After a brief service with the Polish Army he graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Warsaw University, where he studied philosophy, psychology and logic [REF].
Freed from prison in November 1941 under the terms of the general amnesty for Poles prompted by the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union,[REF] he was exiled to Kazakhstan, with his wife Paulina, also known as Ola Watowa (26 April 1903 - 9 February 1991), and their 9-year-old son, Andrzej.