In Nazi-occupied Poland, schools, courts and newspapers were operated by the Polish Underground secretly, right under the nose of the Gestapo. The author who was liaison officer between the underground and the exiled Polish government in London, wrote this amazing report right after the liberation.
Wladyslaw Szpilman was a young Jewish pianist who, almost uniquely, managed to stay alive in Warsaw throughout World War II. Immediately afterwards, he wrote this account of his experiences during the war.
They recount the adventures of a man who, by the time he was twenty-five, had marched from Madrid to Moscow and had been severely wounded on three separate occasions. From 1808 to 1812 he was caught up in Napoleon's attempt to subjugate Spain, fighting in battles, sieges (including the siege of Saragossa) and hunting and being hunted by merciless ...
Ruth Altbeker Cyprys was a young Jewish lawyer who, together with her child Eva, survived WWII in the most extraordinary circumstances. In this journal, written immediately after the War and then hidden away for nearly 50 years, Cyprys tells about the terrifying deportations that began in 1942, about her own incredible escape with her child from a ...
In the bestselling tradition of Life and Death in Shanghai, this is one woman's powerful story of heroism and survival in the Polish Resistance movement during World War II. 30 photos.
The journal of a young Jewish woman struggling to survive the German invasion of Poland. Taken from the Ghetto in 1943, Ruth Altbeker Cyprys saved her own life, and that of her daughter, by jumping from a moving train bound for Treblinka.
Binjamin Wilkomirski was a tiny child when the round-ups in Poland began. His father was killed in front of him, he was separated from his family, and found himself completely alone, three or four years old, in Majdanek death camp. Moved from camp to camp as the years went on, in 1945 he was half-kidnapped, half-rescued from an orphanage in Cracow ...
The autobiography of a Polish poet and translator now living in England, which describes his childhood in Warsaw at the outbreak of World War II, and the remarkable journey undertaken by his family as they fled across Europe to the Middle East in order to escape German occupation.
David and Sophie Goetzel left Germany in 1935 to escape Nazi anti-Semitism. They moved to Warsaw, Poland, and were married. Once there, they planned to move to a safer country, farther away from the Nazi threat. But when their daughter, Micki, was born in 1937, financial constraints forced them to delay those plans. On September 1, 1939, they were ...
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A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II
