Untold Stories of Polish Heroes from World War II

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvAleksandra Ziólkowska-Boehm,Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm

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A full understanding of the historical process must include studies of the social and economic conditions of societies as well as biographies of the people on which a clear understanding of history is based—but not just the “great” people. Biographies of “average” individuals, who exist in a society, have their own experiences and are acted upon by their surrounding environments, are essential to a clear and complete understanding of the past and its influence on the present. In this respect, Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm has made a major contribution to furthering the understanding of World War II, and especially the part played by Poland and Poles, with her compilation of individual biographies of people who participated in many of its formative events.Ziolkowska-Boehm’s protagonists include a variety of people and experiences that enhance the usefulness of the volume. There are: Tadeusz Brzezinski, a member of the Polish diplomatic corps; the hero who escaped the Lwów ghetto to fight in the Warsaw Uprising and later founded a theatre group in Montréal; a pilot who escaped from the Soviet Union to fly fighters over Great Britain; a photographer of the Warsaw Uprising; a nurse during the Warsaw Uprising; a personal memories of the post-war era move to the United States; a person who was forcefully deported with her family to the Soviet Urals, later escaping to the Middle East and eventually Mexico; the boy who, though only eight when the war began, but survived Pawiak Prison, moved to Brazil, and became an internationally-known poet and artist.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-11-02
Mått148 x 233 x 12 mm
Vikt290 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor176
FörlagUniversity Press of America
MedarbetarePula,JamesS.
ISBN9780761869832

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Foreword by James S. PulaAcknowledgmentsPrefaceChapter One: Father and Son—Tadeusz and Zbigniew BrzezinskiChapter Two: Two Great Passions—Flying And Writing: Rudolf FalkowskiChapter Three: “I carried the films on my head” Photographer of the Warsaw Uprising: Wieslaw ChrzanowskiChapter Four: Varsovians in the States: Krystyna and Marek JaroszewiczChapter Five: “I was that child about to be born…”: Maria KowalChapter Six: The Child from Bialowieza Primeval Forest, the Urals, Isfahan and Mexico: Danuta BatorskaChapter Seven: Captive of the Theatre: Marion AndreChapter Eight: Angola-Born, Brazil-Based Poet, Artist: Tomasz LychowskiAnnex: Literary Journalism, Storytelling, or Literature of FactIndexAbout the Author

Poland was the first country to stand against Hitler’s Nazi armies and the Red Armies of Stalin’s Soviet Union when, in Sept. 1939, at the beginning of World War 11, they both marched into Poland with the deliberate intention of dividing the country and destroying it’s people. The eminent literary historian and master story-teller, Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm’s important and beautifully crafted book records the history of this horrific time through eight powerful narratives relating the experiences of diverse people, many of whom survived the atrocities of ethnic cleansing, the valiant Warsaw Uprising in 1944 and struggles beyond. The author brings her intriguing and fascinating protagonists alive with a brilliant mix of intimate physical experiences and their profound thoughts of how the trauma of war affected their own philosophy of life and the meaning of it all. With these unforgettable true life-stories of special, yet ordinary people, who symbolize the sum of all persons, Aleksandra has created an essential link in the chain of human chronicles that document the heroic epic history of Poland and the Polish people.The author offers an invaluable bonus in the “Annex” where she relates how she personally perceives “creative nonfiction.”