On the Run in Occupied Poland

IRENE KACANDES is Professor Emerita of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. GRAŻYNA GROSS (1931-2022) survived displacement and refugeedom as a young Polish girl during the Second World War and spent most of her adult life in Ithaca, NY. JOYCE GROSS is a database and web programmer for the UC Berkeley Natural History Museums. Her tribute to her mother is at https://joycegross.com/note/2022/04/25/grazyna. ALEKSANDRA SZCZEPAN is a post-doc researcher on a joint initiative of the Professorship for Slavic Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Potsdam, Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, and the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, DE.

• A Prefatory Note from the EditorMapOn the Run in Occupied Poland: Tales of a Refugee Childhood by Grażyna GrossChapter One, Maria and MirekChapter Two, HeniuśChapter Three, Maybe Not a StoryChapter Four, Letter to an Unknown ManChapter Five, The Shoemaker's SonChapter Six, The Doctor's DaughterChapter Seven, The Fortune TellerChapter Eight, The Root CanalChapter Nine, The Day Papa LeftChapter Ten, TereskaChapter Eleven, The Picture Album, Part OneChapter Twelve, Half-BoardersChapter Thirteen, Józefina's Mistress Chapter Fourteen, The Psychic Chapter Fifteen, The Gloves Chapter Sixteen, The Ring Chapter Seventeen A BoyChapter Eighteen, Uncle KotChapter Nineteen, A Dinner Chapter Twenty, A Christmas StoryChapter Twenty-One, Letter to JózefinaChapter Twenty-Two, The SledChapter Twenty-Three, The WatchChapter Twenty-Four, TyphusChapter Twenty-Five, JustynaChapter Twenty-Six, Mrs. KrausChapter Twenty-Seven, The Picture Album, Part TwoChapter Twenty-Eight, PeaceChapter Twenty-Nine, A Night in RegensburgChapter Thirty EvhenChapter Thirty-One, SchoolChapter Thirty-Two, EHChapter Thirty-Three, The Girl from FurthChapter Thirty-Four, Father ZeiselChapter Thirty-Five, MamaAfterwordsMothers and Daughters-and Grandmothers, by Joyce GrossWhat is Historic? What is Heroic?, by Aleksandra SzczepanMy Friend the Writer, by Irene KacandesAppendicesTimelineNotes to the TalesFamily PhotosExtract from the Polish NotebooksCard from Henryk Połtowicz at Gross-Rosen to his daughter AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIndex