A unique personal account of Jewish life in Eastern Europe during
the Holocaust and of a young man's determination to prevail in the
face of utter catastrophe.
In this unusual memoir, Edward Stankiewicz stirringly recalls
his youth as a Polish Jew beginning with prewar Warsaw through to
the Nazi invasion. Life on the run lands Stankiewicz in
Soviet-occupied Lwow where in time he joins the Lwow Literary Club.
A friend of Jewish, Yiddish, Polish, and Soviet poets and writers,
he offers rare insights into wartime Eastern European intellectual
life.
After the German occupation of Lwow, in the newly built Jewish
ghetto, he works in German military outfits and learns to forge
Aryan and German documents to help people escape. In a German
uniform he escapes to the Eastern Ukraine where he wanders for
several months from town to town. Captured by the Gestapo, he is
shipped to Buchenwald where he survives as a Pole. In the camp he
manages to produce Polish and German poetry and a play. Some of
these poems are reproduced in the book.
Writing in a spare, accessible style, Stankiewicz unflinchingly
addresses such significant issues as identity; loyalty, betrayal,
anti-Semitism, and communism.
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