A collective diary from the years 1914-1918, a compilation of hundreds of individual testimonies selected from the records of that time. The book makes it possible to look with the eye of ancestors at the process of Poland changing from a dream into a state.
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A diary showing extreme experience of being one of 10 people hiding in a 6 square meter cellar. It is a testimony of survival in Kolomyia (today’s Ukraine) where after the liquidation of local ghetto, between winter 1942/43 and spring 1944 author, his wife and group of other Jews managed to escape the chase of Nazi functionaries. Apart from daily problems and complex relationships between the group of people shut and herded in the shelter, the diary refers to relations between Jews and Poles providing them their help.
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The year 1945 brought the end of war and finally settled Poland’s post-war shape. The voices of witnesses of those events: politicians, soldiers, but also ordinary people help us build the portrait of that dramatic time which affected Poland’s fate for the subsequent decades. It is a chronological compilation of source testimonies, which makes up a rich story of the turn of war and peace, slow development of the post-war reality, collision of hope for a normal life with the new order which was to mean the loss of independence for another half a century.
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The history of uprising in Nazi extermination camp in Sobibór told by the eye-witnesses who survived and escaped death. 27 testimonies of camp’s prisoners (including two of them who died in the gas chamber) represent over 300.000 of those who perished in Sobibor.
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The original version of the testimony of Calel Perechodnik, a resident of Otwock, a Jewish policeman at the local ghetto. The book is an accusation of the German people, and, at the same time, the Polish and Jewish people. The author assumes a great portion of responsibility for the death of his wife and a two-year old daughter. He outlines the figures of Poles and Jews known to him. He ruthlessly reveals their weaknesses and vices which had led to social consent for the occurrence of such inhumane situations. The Confession was written in 1943, but its author did not live to see the liberation.
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Deeply touching and thrilling account of a Czech Jew. Glazar was one of only a few survivors of the Nazi death camp – Treblinka. He was transported to Treblinka in October 1942 and was one of the workers who sorted the belongings of those sent to the gas chambers. He survived several months working in the camp, knowing that he was working for a cause that killed thousands of Jews. On August 2, 1943, the prisoners of Treblinka broke out through a damaged gate during a revolt. While most of the escapees were arrested in proximity to the camp, Glazar escaped the area and made his way across Poland.
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A thrilling testimony of a Jewish doctor, direct witness of the Holocaust, who lost almost all his loved ones and spent 9 months hidden in an attic of the house inhabited by a Polish family. His testimony was written while hiding in Tłuste (today’s Ukraine) in 1943–44. Significant part of the memoirs is devoted to his prewar life and the situation of young Polish Jews in the 1930s. The part of the book related to the war time reflects the cruelty of aggressors and complicated relations between Jewish, Polish and Ukrainian people in the small cities of Podole region.
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An account made by 18 years old girl. Her Jewish origin was a death sentence but she managed to escape form ghetto in Końskie and survived the Holocaust “on the aryan papers” thanks to help she got from Poles. Her testimony is a vivid image of the everyday life under the Nazis and a frank, truthful study of the Polish-Jewish relations.
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December 1981, Martial Law. Małgorzata Niezabitowska and photographer Tomasz Tomaszewski, disobeying severe bans, document the real picture of those days. Thanks to that material the Western world learned the truth about the reality of Jaruzelski’s Polish “war.” This unique text is published for the first time in Poland. It is accompanied by fragments of the then personal diary of the authoress and stories written after 1989 revealing the inside story of often daring but always top secret activities. The narrations along with the photographs create a multi-layered and dynamic colourful whole.
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A reminiscence of a Pole from Grudziądz about his forced service at the Hitler Army. An important testimony of how much the wartime fates of Poles from Silesia and Pomerania could differ from stereotypical ideas. Joachim Ceraficki was forcibly conscripted into Wehrmacht in May 1942. As a third-class citizen of the Reich he spent almost three years in the German Army. He deserted in January 1945. He tried to be a good soldier, because it was a way of minimizing the risk of death. In the trenches his patriotic attitude would be of no relevance. Comradeship was the most important thing there. Ceraficki describes his experiences of that time without pathos: he writes about his pals, fear, girls, leaves at home, and living conditions of German soldiers on the front. He does not try to defend any thesis or excuse himself. He simply writes how it was.
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The Ravensbrück concentration camp at its final stage. The narration oscillates between a sense of hopelessness and the will of survival, capitulation and rebellion, creating a moving record of extreme experience. Nomination for the Nobel Prize in literature in 1974.Anja Lundholm (1918–2007), daughter of a German Jewish mother and a fervent Nazi father. In the 1930s, her father joined the SS and her mother committed suicide after the pogroms of the “Night of Broken Glass.” Lundholm studied in Berlin. In 1941, she escaped from Berlin to Rome, where she established contacts with the resistance movement. Denounced by her own father she was arrested, passed through several prisons, and was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in March 1944. That experience affected her in both physical and psychological terms for the rest of her life.
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A chronological picture of twenty years of struggle for a perfect free homeland. The story is a compilation of statements by tens of individuals, witnesses of those events. Eyewitness accounts alternate with communiques, appeals, orders, and the correspondence of both local secret police with the headquarters and Lavrenty Beria with Stalin. It all makes us feel like participants in those events.
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The fates of a young soldier on the front and at the rear at the difficult time from World War I until 1921. There were not many people in Poland who would report on the subsequent stages of our history with such devotion. The book contains the most important and most interesting fragments of diaries and reminiscences from the large output of the author.
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Three months which changed Ukraine written down through the testimonies of individuals: recordings, diaries, memoirs, blogs or Facebook entries. The multitude of experiences makes up a universal story of the phenomenon of Ukrainian breakthrough which started with a peaceful rally in defence of pro-European orientation of the country and ended with the revolution in Kiev and the overthrow of a criminal president. It was the time when the Ukrainians started speaking with a full voice about their right to free choice, about honesty, truth, and dignity, and finally took to the streets in their defence at any cost.
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