WROŃSKI St., ZWOLAKOWA M. - POLISH JEWS 1939-1945

WROŃSKI Stanisław, ZWOLAKOWA Maria - POLACY ŻYDZI 1939-1945

Książka i Wiedza, Warsaw 1971.Wym.24,5x20,5cm; pages 462. publisher's hardcover binding.Few scuffs of the wrapper and some duststains.

DESCRIPTION:

The documentation contained in this book is an attempt to source one of the greatest dramas of the Second World War period. The reader will find documents of various provenance (...); various announcements, decrees and declarations, reports and reports, court testimonies and verdicts, personal recollections and letters, as well as original photographs. Arranged chronologically, they bear witness to human suffering, blunders and illusions, inhuman torture, disgrace and meanness, and on the other hand, struggle and solidarity going so far as to sacrifice one's life.

It is not a preconceived concept, but the nature of the subject that made the documents unite as if by themselves with their latent ties, forming in this book three parts of one story.

The first - is the commonality of the fate of the doomed people. The wall of death. Under it, people are equally put to death, although in different order, (...). History aptly describes this as the crime of genocide. In the victims, therefore, one should see not their creed and race, as the Nuremberg Laws wanted, but above all the fact that they were human beings (...).

The second part of this publication consists of documents testifying to the search for rescue by nations threatened with extermination. Depending on differing situations, political goals and also national traditions, different concepts of rescue were grasped (...)

The third part of the book consists of accounts, testimonies and letters testifying to the great human solidarity that has not lived to see proper commemoration. Solidarity that is indelible, recorded by numerous common graves of Poles and Jews (...)

(...) This publication also bears witness to the truth against all those who slander the Polish nation. However, this publication avoids polemics against these slanders, it would not be in accord with what history has permanently recorded in documents dating from those years.