Mietek Sieradzki fled Nazi-occupied Poland to the Soviet Union, from where he was deported to Siberia. Life there was tough and harsh, but he escaped the Holocaust and after the war joined the Polish foreign service.w as posted in Moscow, London, Korea, Cambodia and Canada, in the latter two as head of mission. From the early stages of his career disillusionment set in. In time his reluctance to conform and his Jewish origin made him a target for harassment by the secret services, and eventually the anti-Jewish campaign unleashed in Poland in 1968 ended his career and drove him out of the...
Mietek Sieradzki fled Nazi-occupied Poland to the Soviet Union, from where he was deported to Siberia. Life there was tough and harsh, but he escaped ...
Florian's story is unique in many ways. He escaped from a slave labour camp and survived the Polish winter alone as a fugitive in the forests, living in hand-made shelters dug beneath the ground. He fought as a partisan in the Polish Home Army at a time when few Jews did so (but had to hide his Jewish identity from his comrades to ensure that men in the group he commanded would follow his orders). Finally, under threat from the anti-Semitism of Polish partisans, he joined a parachute group, made up of Russian prisoners-of-war and German veterans from the Spanish Civil War, and fought with...
Florian's story is unique in many ways. He escaped from a slave labour camp and survived the Polish winter alone as a fugitive in the forests, living ...
This volume provides information about the Nazi persecution of the Jews and other minorities, the global consequences of these acts of terror and the mentality of the perpetrators as well as the victims and the hypocrisy of the passive bystanders.
This volume provides information about the Nazi persecution of the Jews and other minorities, the global consequences of these acts of terror and the ...
This is the story of Rita Blattberg, a Jewish child from Krakow from when the Germans invade Poland in 1939, to her deportation to the Soviet Union. It documents her time there and the colourful cast of characters that she met before returning to a hometown inhabitated by ghosts, and leaving Poland to start a new life in the West. Unusually this account includes postcards, which were sent by Rita's grandmothers in 1940 and 1941, from occupied Poland.
This is the story of Rita Blattberg, a Jewish child from Krakow from when the Germans invade Poland in 1939, to her deportation to the Soviet Union. I...
Now a retired university academic living in Jerusalem, Katz was born into a well-to-do Jewish family who owned a thriving grocery shop and export business in Jaroslaw, a smallish town in southeastern Poland. In 1939, the Katz family was expelled by the Gestapo from Jaroslaw into the Soviet-occupied
Now a retired university academic living in Jerusalem, Katz was born into a well-to-do Jewish family who owned a thriving grocery shop and export busi...
