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"Extraordinary storytelling about unfathomable horror." - Library Journal (starred review)"[A] worthy tribute to the extraordinary bravery of a remarkable woman." -- Publishers WeeklyIn World War II's Poland, thirty year old Zofia Sterner and her husband Wacek refuse to be classified as Jews destined for extermination.Instead, they evade the Nazis and the Soviets in several dramatic escapes and selflessly rescue many Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto and a labor camp, later becoming active participants in the Warsaw Uprising where they are taken prisoner. This retelling, captured through diaries, interviews, war crime trial testimonies, and letters, detail the Sterners' heroic rescues, escapes, and ultimate survival. A true story of hope amid horrifying tragedy, How We Outwitted and Survived the Nazis illustrates how war brings out the worst and the best in people, and how true humanity and heroism of ordinary people are revealed by their willingness to risk everything and help others. This story is about being human under the most inhumane conditions.

Warshawas jødeghetto 1942: Da Izoldas mand, Shayek, bliver fængslet, drager hun omgående afsted for at redde ham. Hun skifter navn, ændrer hårfarve – endda religion. Undervejs bliver hun fanget og sendt til Auschwitz. Men selv er hun overbevist om, at hendes kærlighed vil redde dem begge. Hanna Krall er en internationalt særdeles anerkendt polsk forfatter, og hendes bestseller om Holocaust er en uforglemmelig, sandfærdig og åndeløst spændende beretning om kærlighed og overlevelse midt i et af historiens grusomste kapitler. Hjerterkonge er en historisk roman, som ikke lader læseren uberørt. På trods af de store menneskelige tragedier viser Hanna Krall os, hvor vigtigt det er at bevare optimismen og det lyse sind. Hjerterkonge er foreløbig udkommet på 20 forskellige sprog og har en fantastisk let og lys sprogtone, emnet taget i betragtning.

Die stoff- und motivgeschichtlichen Recherchen des Literaturwissenschaftlers und Erzählforschers Johannes Bolte (1858 - 1937) sind in der Weite der Anschauung bis heute unerreicht. In dem hier vorliegenden Werk bietet Bolte einen profunden Überblick über die Theaterwelt Danzigs im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert. Mit einigen Stücken im Anhang. Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1895.

This book compiles the color profiles, scale plans, and photo details of the Polish Armoured Draisine TK.

The famous Polish jet trainer TS-11 Iskra and its variants in the Polish Air Force are described in unparalleled detail.

It's your first day as a lawyer, and you have to defend the country's most notorious killer . . . From the biggest selling author in Poland comes this stunning legal thriller introducing legendary criminal justice lawyer, Joanna Chylka.

"Polish'd brims with dazzling recipes and inviting stories--virtuosic, vegetarian takes on traditional Polish cuisine with multicultural influences."--Foreword, starred review 100 fresh, modern Polish vegetarian recipes--from new takes on traditional favorites to fusions from around the world

Building the Barricade, harrowing and demanding, here takes its place in English among the twentieth century's master works of war-witness.”—Jane HirshfieldBuilding the Barricade, is poetry of witness, and a lyric account of the sixty-three day Warsaw uprising.Caught between German occupation and the advancing Soviets, the Polish Resistance Home Army barricaded central Warsaw in hopes of liberating the city and gaining Polish sovereignty. Building the Barricade is Anna Świrszczyńska’s first-person account of the atrocities that destroyed over 60% of the Polish capital and left over 100,000 civilians and 16,000 Polish resistance fighters dead.Świrszczyńska had joined the resistance as a military nurse and later wrote: “Day and night German bombers raged over the capital, burying the living beneath the rubble.”

The poet, lyricist, and translator Julian Tuwim (1894 - 1953) was a major figure in Polish literature. In 1918, he was one of the co-founders of the Skamander group of experimental poets who broke with the nationalist aim of poetry to focus instead on the common people. Tuwim's work was wide-ranging and included writing songs for the cabaret as well as beloved children's verses. In 1935, he was awarded the Golden Laurel by the Polish Academy of Literature.

In Poland, contemporary political actors have constructed a narrative of Polish history since 1989 in which Polish and Jewish involvement with communism has created a national concept of "we." Weaponizing the Past explores the resulting implications of national belonging through a lens of collective memory. Taking a constructivist approach to electoral politics and nation making in Poland's past, this volume's dual line of inquiry articulates why and how elites politicize the past, what effect this politicization produces, and contextualizes this politicization to illustrate contemporary production of anti-Semitism.

Im schlesischen Breslau (seit 1945 Wroclaw/Polen) lebte in der Zwischenkriegszeit die drittgrößte jüdische Gemeinde des Deutschen Reichs (nach Berlin und Frankfurt) mit etwa 24.000 Mitgliedern. Sie erlebten die Ausgrenzung aus dem städtischen Raum, Verfolgung und Vernichtung durch die Nationalsozialisten wie Jüdinnen und Juden in anderen deutschen Städten auch. Doch die NS-Zeit ist für Breslau wenig erforscht - weder in Polen noch in Deutschland wurde das Thema intensiver bearbeitet. Der Wechsel der staatlichen Zugehörigkeit der Stadt 1945, der "Kalte Krieg" und seine Folgen sowie die Sprachbarriere verhinderten dies lange Zeit. In diesem Buch nehmen die Autorinnen und Autoren die Geschichte der Shoah in Breslau neu in den Blick. Das interdisziplinäre Team wählt dabei verschiedene Perspektiven und Kontexte, in denen Ausgrenzung, Verfolgung und Vernichtung im städtischen Raum geschahen, und rekonstruiert Orte und Sphären jüdischen Lebens: Arbeit und Wohnen, Religion und Politik, Kunst und Kultur. Auch die Auswirkungen der Shoah im Rückblick - etwa auf den Umgang mit Friedhöfen, auf die Kartographie der Stadt, auf Erinnerungen an Breslau oder archivalische Quellen zur Shoah - werden thematisiert. Die Texte lassen ein facettenreiches Bild der Topographie der Shoah in Breslau entstehen. Sie möchten dazu beitragen, die Erinnerung an die Breslauer Shoah-Opfer wach zu halten und zu weiteren Forschungen zu diesem Thema anzuregen. Mit dem Schwinden der letzten Zeitzeug*innen werden die (erhaltenen) historischen Gebäude noch mehr zu Trägern ihrer Geschichte(n) und damit auch zu Denkmälern im Stadtraum von heute, die Geschichte und das Erbe der Menschen erfahrbar machen. Neben substanziellen Beiträgen zu einzelnen historischen Orten verbindet die Publikation diese auch miteinander und bietet so eine neue Lesart der Textur der Stadt und des ,Kapitels Shoah' in Breslau. Karten und zahlreiche Illustrationen ergänzen den Band. Mit Beiträgen von Abraham Ascher, Annelies Augustyns, Ramona Bräu, Tim Buchen, Tamar Cohn Gazit, Katharina Friedla, Dariusz Gierczak, Anja Golebiowski, Monika Heinemann, Lisa Höhenleitner, Agnieszka Jablonska, Karolina Jara, Jerzy Kichler, Sabine E. Koesters Gensini, Vasco Kretschmann, Simona Leonardi, Daniel Ljunggren, Maria Luft, Hagen Markwardt, Johann Nicolai, Katrin Schmidt, Malgorzata Stolarska-Fronia, Hans-Ulrich Wagner, Tamara Wlodarczyk und mit einem Nachwort von Dieter J. Hecht.

Structured according to key themes, Polish Cinema Today analyzes the remarkable innovations in Polish cinema emerging a decade after the 1989 dissolution of the Soviet bloc, once its film industry had evolved from a socialist state enterprise into a much more accessible system of film production, with growing expertise in distribution and marketing. By the early 2000s, an impressive, diverse cohort of filmmakers broke through the gridlock of a small set of esteemed, aging auteurs as well as the glut of imported Hollywood blockbusters, empowered by the digital revolution and domestic audience appetite for independent work. Polish directors today challenge sacrosanct bromides about national and gender identity, Poland's historical martyrdom, the status of the influential Catholic Church, and the benevolent family, while investigating the phenomena of migration and sexuality in their full complexity. Each thematic chapter places these recent films within a historical/cultural context nationally and transnationally, and designs its analyses of specific works to engage general audiences of film scholars, students, and cinephiles.

"Originally published at Ludzie bezdomni in 1900"--Title page verso.

An annotated collection of original photographs of twins who survived the brutal medical experiments at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1943-1945). These never-before-seen photographs, taken by the author at the 40th anniversary of the camp’s liberation (1985) and the hearing on Mengele’s crimes that followed at Yad Vashem are unforgettable.

The first monograph devoted to the popular genre of the Slavic film musical, this volume offers analyses of some of the most widely-attended Polish and Russian films within a cultural and sociopolitical context.

"Steeped in ancient wisdom, magic and folktales, this illustrated scrapbook of Slavic lore offers natural remedies, beauty and cleaning products, healing recipes and wellbeing rituals that will appeal to modern witches and natural healing fans."--

Emilie Lockert er succesfuld kabaretstjerne i Paris, men karrieren synger på sidste vers, hvorfor hun har besluttet at vende salonerne ryggen og rejse tilbage til hjemstavnen i Nordnorge. Men på rejsen forliser hendes skib, og hun kæntrer på en gold ø, kun beboet af en vejrbidt fyrmester og hans assistent, den charmerende Aksel Ludvigsen, som passer det gamle fyrtårn.Mens vinterstormene raser på øen, må de tre fremmede lære hinanden og sig selv at kende. Det bliver et skæbnesvangert bekendtskab, hvor berusende minder og dunkle hemmeligheder fra Paris’ berømte scener og barndommen i Nordland igen kommer for dagens lys.Madame Blonde er første bog i en storslået serie om kærlighedens veje og vildveje i Paris og Nordnorge i begyndelsen af det 20. århundrede.

"This book uncovers the changing artistic landscape of Poland between the 1920s and 1950s, through the work of Jewish-Polish painter and Holocaust survivor, Henryk Streng (Marek Wlodarski) (1903-1960). Extraordinary for his aesthetic innovation during the two major traumas of 20th-century European history, the Holocaust and Stalinism, Streng's work disrupted the established notions of 20th-century Polish art, while making the case for an internationalized history of European Modernism - as demonstrated by this book for the first time"--

In the historiography of human rights, the 1980s feature as little more than an afterthought to the human rights breakthrough of the previous decade. Through an examination of one of the major actors of recent human rights history - Poland's Solidarity movement - Robert Brier challenges this view. Suppressed in 1981, Poland's Solidarity movement was supported by a surprisingly diverse array of international groups: US Cold Warriors, French left-wing intellectuals, trade unionists, Amnesty International, even Chilean opponents of the Pinochet regime. By unpacking the politics and transnational discourses of these groups, Brier demonstrates how precarious the position of human rights in international politics remained well into the 1980s. More importantly, he shows that human rights were a profoundly political and highly contested language, which actors in East and West adopted to redefine their social and political identities in times of momentous cultural and intellectual change.