[3] Unwilling to return to Communist-ruled Poland after the Second World War, Abraszewski spent several years in Polish Displaced Persons camps in Germany where he taught art to refugees.
In 1949, Abraszewski arrived in San Francisco with his wife who also graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and who also survived Nazi concentration camps.
[citation needed] It was Piotr Abraszewski’s dream to paint frescoes in churches and public buildings.
[citation needed] When Mr. Abraszewski became a member of the Polish Arts and Culture Foundation [4][failed verification][failed verification] (established in 1966 in San Francisco), he participated in historical exhibits, created hand-made signs still in use today and, with encouragement of the Foundation, exhibited his work.
Several years before Mr. Abraszewski fell ill, ten of his favorite paintings were photographed and produced as postcards.