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Three Colors of My Life
An incredible, true story of a Holocaust survivor. When your world collapses around you, when your family is exterminated and your life is worth less than a dog's life, what do you do to survive? Young, David Tenenbaum chooses an unusual path to survival...Equipped with the false Arian identity papers, he goes where only non-Jews would risk going at the time--he volunteers for work in Germany, in their Arbeit camps. What does he need to do to survive? How close is far enough from death? From Nazi Germany we are taken to the communist post-war Poland where we gain insight to the operations of the communist regime. Three Colors of My Life is a fascinating story of personal experience set on the background of the largest state organized mass ethnic cleansing in history.
An Ordinary Life?
One woman’s national, political, ethnic, social, and personal identities impart an extraordinary perspective on the histories of Europe, Polish Jews, Communism, activism, and survival during the twentieth century. Tonia Lechtman was a Jew, a loving mother and wife, a Polish patriot, a committed Communist, and a Holocaust survivor. Throughout her life these identities brought her to multiple countries—Poland, Palestine, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Israel—during some of the most pivotal and cataclysmic decades of the twentieth century. In most of those places, she lived on the margins of society while working to promote Communism and trying to create a safe space for her sma...
Uprooted
How a German city became Polish after World War II With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants—almost all of them ethnic Germans—were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers from all parts of prewar Poland. Uprooted examines the long-term psychological and cultural consequences of forced migration in twentieth-century Europe through the experiences of Wroclaw's Polish inhabitants. In this pioneering work, Gregor Thum tells the story of how the city's new Polish settlers found themselves in a place that was not onl...
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Redrawing Nations
After World War II, some 12 million Germans, 3 million Poles and Ukrainians, and tens of thousands of Hungarians were expelled from their homes and forced to migrate to their supposed countries of origin. Using freshly available materials from Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Czechoslovak, German, British, and American archives, the contributors to this book provide a sweeping, detailed account of the turmoil caused by the huge wave of forced migration during the nascent Cold War. The book also documents the deep and lasting political, social, and economic consequences of this traumatic time, raising difficult questions about the effect of forced migration on postwar reconstruction, the rise of Communism, and the growing tensions between Western Europe and the Eastern bloc. Those interested in European Cold-War history will find this book indispensable for understanding the profound--but hitherto little known--upheavals caused by the massive ethnic cleansing that took place from 1944 to 1948.
Germany 1945
In 1945, Germany experienced the greatest outburst of deadly violence that the world has ever seen. Germany 1945 examines the country's emergence from the most terrible catastrophe in modern history. When the Second World War ended, millions had been murdered; survivors had lost their families; cities and towns had been reduced to rubble and were littered with corpses. Yet people lived on, and began rebuilding their lives in the most inauspicious of circumstances. Bombing, military casualties, territorial loss, economic collapse and the processes of denazification gave Germans a deep sense of their own victimhood, which would become central to how they emerged from the trauma of total defeat, turned their backs on the Third Reich and its crimes, and focused on a transition to relative peace. Germany's return to humanity and prosperity is the hinge on which Europe's twentieth century turned. For years we have concentrated on how Europe slid into tyranny, violence, war and genocide; this book describes how humanity began to get back out.
Andrzej Wajda
The work of Andrzej Wajda, one of the world's most important filmmakers, shows remarkable cohesion in spite of the wide ranging scope of his films, as this study of his complete output of feature films shows. Not only do his films address crucial historical, social and political issues; the complexity of his work is reinforced by the incorporation of the elements of major film and art movements. It is the reworking of these different elements by Wajda, as the author shows, which give his films their unique visual and aural qualities.
Biografia zawodowa Władysława Paszkowskiego białostockiego konserwatora zabytków w fotografiach zapisana (1945-1972)
Władysław Paszkowski przybywając tuż przed zakończeniem wojny do Białegostoku i podejmując się pełnienia obowiązków Wojewódzkiego Konserwatora Zabytków miał świadomość, że w pracy służb konserwatorskich po 1945 r. dokonać się będzie musiało przesunięcie środka ciężkości z ochrony zabytków na ich inwentaryzację pod kątem zniszczeń, a następnie na ich rekonstrukcję lub zabezpieczenie jako trwałych ruin. Stanęło przed nim nie łatwe zadanie ocalenia dziedzictwa kulturowo-architektonicznego przede wszystkim miasta nad Białą, jak też całego północnego Podlasia. W zderzeniu ze zmieniającymi się, jak w kalejdoskopie wizjami urbanistycznymi decydentów partyjnych realizował on (czasami metodą faktów dokonanych), przy współpracy ze Stanisławem Bukowskim odbudowę najcenniejszych zabytków w regionie. Pełnię determinacji w realizacji swojej zawodowej misji zademonstrował doprowadzając mimo oporu lokalnych władz do podjęcia w 1952 r. odbudowy miejskiego ratusza. Pomocne w tej pracy było zdobyte jeszcze przed wojną w Wilnie doświadczenie w wykorzystaniu przy rekonstrukcji zabytków dokumentacyjnej fotografii konserwatorskiej.
