personal narratives, polish

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personal narratives, polish

Code name Zegota

rescuing Jews in occupied Poland, 1942-1945 : the most dangerous conspiracy in wartime Europe
  • Tomaszewski, Irene
2010

We were in Auschwitz

  • Nel Siedlecki, Janusz
2000
A translation of the account, first published in 1946, of three former prisoners' experiences in Auschwitz; includes a glossary of Auschwitz terminology.

Anus mundi

1,500 days in Auschwitz/Birkenau
  • Kielar, Wiesaw
1980
The first eyewitness report of the Holocaust to record the horror of the camps from their inception in 1941 to liberation. Considered one of the definitive books on Auschwitz.

Have you forgotten?

a memoir of Poland, 1939-1945
  • Zamoyska-Panek, Christine
1989
A 14-year old girl flees Poland and becomes a member of the Resistance.

Dying, we live

the personal chronicle of a young freedom fighter in Warsaw, 1939-1945
  • Kulski, Julian Eugene
1979
The author's journal records his experiences as a young member of the Polish resistance forces and as a prisoner of the Germans during World War II.

War in the shadow of Auschwitz

memoirs of a Polish resistance fighter and survivor of the death camps
  • Wiernicki, John
2001
John Wiernicki chronicles the experiences he had after he was captured by the Gestapo in 1943 and sent to Auschwitz.

The long walk

the true story of a trek to freedom
  • Rawicz, Slavomir
1997
The author describes his escape with a small group of fellow prisoners from a Soviet labor camp in 1941 and their subsequent trek out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, and Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.
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