About this title: In September of 1939, Countess Karolina Lanckoroska, wealthy landowner and professor of art history, watched the Soviet army march into Poland. After joining the resistance, she was arrested, sentenced to death, and held in Ravensbruck concentration camp. There she taught art history to other women who, like her, might be dead in a few days. This ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Date Published: 2007-04-30
ISBN-13:9780306815379ISBN:0306815370
Description: Very Good in Very Good + jacket. *** Hardcover in Very Good +/Very Good + condition. Binding tight, pages clean. No previous owner names. *** read more
Edition: First EDITION
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: DA CAPO
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780306815379ISBN:0306815370
Description: NEW in NEW jacket. BIOGRAPHY. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. TAN AND WHITE DUST JACKET. 341 PAGES. BOOK IS CLEAN, BRIGHT, SECURE AND UNREAD. read more
Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Da Capo
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780306815379ISBN:0306815370
Description: B&W photos. New in jacket. ISBN: 0306815370. Hardcover.341 pages. Octavo. Bright, clean, tight. First Da Capo Press edition. Preface by Eva Hoffman. Translated by Noel Clark. read more
Edition: 1st Ed. (U.S. ) 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Da Capo Press, New York, NY
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780306815379ISBN:0306815370
Description: 20 B/W Photos, 1 Map. Fine/Fine. W/Dust Jacket 341pgs(Index) Clean, tight & bright. No ink names, tears, chips, foxing etc. Price unclipped. ISBN 9780306815379. Preface by Eva Hoffman. read more
"Great as a historical memoir, but the title is deceiving. Very little of the book discusses art history, and she doesn't even reach Ravensbruck until 200 pages in (of a less than 300 page book). Before reading this, I was hoping to hear more about how art history can be an inspirational force. Her perspective was unique and certainly is an important aspect of understanding the Holocaust. Just not what I was hoping for."
"This book is taken from the journals of a Polish noblewoman and university professor who participated in the Resistance during World War II. The book contains a mixture of factual information about what happened and her reflections on her experience. The book is easy to read but contains some quite profound insights."
"Very inspiring tale of a countess turned professor turned underground turned concentration camp prisoner during WWII. It's a very interesting, intelligent detail of the "inside" of everything during the war. She tells of the Soviet occupation of Poland, then the Nazi occupation of Poland and then how it felt not to know what was happening to her homeland while she was in prison."
"A lot has been written about the experiences of the Jews during WW2. This book gives a wonderful window into the activities of non-Jewish poles who worked in the resistance movement. When the Countess Karolina Lanckoronska, a Polish professor of fine art, finds herself without a job under the Nazi regime, she volunteers to assist the resistance and begins carrying food parcels, staring down SS generals and carrying secret messages to further the cause. At one point she is the recipient of the confession of a General Kruger about murdering over a hundred professors in the city of Lvov. She is called to testify against him in 1943 by Himmler himself and although her testimony is believed, Himmler's biggest complaint against Kruger is that he told her! So she is thrown into Ravensbruck where her fellow inmates ask her to teach them about art to take their mind off their sufferings. She survived as did her journals and this book was published posthumously. I highly recommend this book. Terrific reading."
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