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I Survived Auschwitz written by
Krystyna Zywulska. Author was born in 1914 as Sonia Landau. During the
German occupation of Poland, in 1941 she was displaced with her Jewish
family to the Warsaw Ghetto. After her escape from there she was active in
the Polish resistance movement. Under her new name, Zywulska, she was
captured by the Nazis in 1943 and imprisoned in Auschwitz.
There is a danger that we shall forget
those things which are better not forgotten. Certainly, some things should
be permanently recorded, so that posterity will remember what we would
rather erase from our memories.
This is the story of a woman who was
imprisoned for some years in the notorious extermination camp of
Auschwitz. What she saw puts the story of medieval genocides into the same
category as a child’s cruelty.
This is her own autobiography, and she
shows not only her own courage, but the terrible urge to live which
possessed her fellow prisoners. Half-starved, suffering from lice,
scabies, dysentery, mowed down by typhus and pneumonia, they worked in the
fields in icy slush and mud and registered new arrivals - hundreds of
thousands of women from Holland, Greece, Italy and Hungary, who did not
know where they were or why they had been seized.
That she survived, and finally managed to
escape to tell the tale is one of many reasons why this book should be
published and widely read, for most of her companions were murdered so
that they would not bear witness.
It is the very first testimony - written
just after the author's escape and published as a first book about
Auschwitz in world's literature - in year 1946.
Our edition was published in cooperation
with Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
I Survived Auschwitz - Krystyna Zywulska (Sonia Landau)
240 pages, 10 illustrations. Paperback.
Price: 19,50$ (shipping included).
e-mail: dom_wydawniczy@tchu.com.pl
