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The Last Eyewitnesses

The Last Eyewitnesses

Children of the Holocaust Speak

Jewish Lives

Edited by Wiktoria Sliwowska

Translated by Julian Bussgang and Fay Bussgang

Imprint: Northwestern University Press

352 Pages, 5.00 x 8.75 in

Paperback
9780810115118
Published: May 1998

$30.00

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Contents
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Praise

These testimonies, submitted by individual authors and not originally intended for publication, were assembled as a historical record by the Association of the Children of the Holocaust in Poland. While evil and brutal anti-Semitism are described, the accounts also reveal the great risks taken by courageous individuals in order to save Jewish children.

Translators' Note
Foreword

From Central Poland
Marianna Adameczek
Jerzy Aleksandrowicz
Aleksandra Berłowicz
Krystyna Chudy
Emanuel Elbinger
Pola Elbinger
Maria
Feldhorn
Jadwiga Fiszbain-Tokarz
Jerzy Frydman
Henryk Ryszard Gantz
Michal Głowiński
Barbara Góra
Maria Greber
Joanna Kaltman
Maria Kamińska
Robert Kulka
Maria Leszczyńska Ejzen
Henryk Lewandowski
Henoch Rafael Lisak
Eugenia Magdziarz
Zofia Majewska
Katarzyna Meloch
Hanna Mesz
Krystyna Nowak
Ludwik Oppenheim
Wiktoria Śliwowska
Anna Irena Trojanowska-Kaczmarska
Sabina Wylot
Maria Teresa Zielińska

From Prewar Eastern Poland
Leszek Leon Allerhand
Helena Choynowska (Alter)
Karol Galiński
Hanka Grynberg
Karolina Heuman
Lena Kaniewska
Maria Kraft
Roman Lewin
Regina Loss-Fisior
Marek Teichmann
Chuwcia Weicher
Malwina Wollek

From the Camps
Jakub Gutenbaum
Jan Kac-Kaczyński
Zofia Lubińska
Bronka Niedźwiecka
Mieczysław Rudnicki

The Youngest
Marian Bobrzyk
Felicia Braun Bryn
Jerzy Cyns
Jerzy Dołębski
Elżbieta Ficowska
Henryk Hajwentreger
Krystyna Kalata-Olejnik
Maria Kosowicz-Bartnik
Zenobia Krzyźanowska
Maria Ochlewska
Hanna Raicher
Aleksandra Rozengarten
Romuald Jakub Weksier-Waszkinel
Zygmunt Wolf
Irena Wójcik
Wilhelm Zienowicz

Postscript
Glossary
Historical Notes
Subject Index
Persons and Places Index

WIKTORIA ŚLIWOWSKA is a historian and professor at the Institute of Polish History at the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw. A member of the Association of the Children of the Holocaust in Poland, her account is included in this volume.

JULIAN BUSSGANG, an engineer and entrepreneur, was born in Lwów, Poland, and served during the war in the Free Polish Army. He has lived in the United States since 1949. In the last few years, he and his wife, Fay, have spent a great deal of time in Poland and have become very interested in the small Jewish community that remains there.

"When the children of the Holocaust speak, one must listen--then weep, pray, and cherish the memories of those who nurtured them." —Zbigniew Brzezinski

"I hope you understand how deeply I feel about this kind of literature. I consider it essential to the understanding of the Holocaust and its manifold implications." —Elie Wiesel

"The authors of The Last Eyewitnesses, children of the Holocaust, still live in Poland. Having survived their Jewish war Gehenna, they did not leave their homeland. Love and respect are due them. This book is a precious and very important publication." —Jan Karski, Polish underground courier, smuggled out of Poland to warn the West of the fate of the Jews under German occupation