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Communist Poland: A Jewish Woman's Experience is the first-person account by Jewish journalist Sara Nomberg-Przytyk of surviving Auschwitz then rising to various leadership roles in the newly-formed postwar Polish Communist Party. Building a just and equitable Poland for the common Pole through communism was her dream. The reality was neither simple nor successful. Working for heavily censored newspapers and periodicals, Nomberg-Przytyk witnessed firsthand the inner workings of a communist government plagued by the same Kafkaesque bureaucracy and antisemitism that she had been certain it would fix. Her memoir provides a comprehensive account as she slowly changed from enthusiastic practitioner to witness of a system that failed her and many others. This is the first published edition of this text, originally recorded as oral testimony in Polish but translated into English by Paula Parsky, and includes a critical introduction by the co-editors, American and Polish academics Holli Levitsky and Justyna Wlodarczyk, as well as extensive annotations.
"From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. I
disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense,
despair, and hopelessness." With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
begins this painful and compelling account of her experiences while
imprisoned for two years in the infamous death camp. Writing twenty
years after her liberation, she recreates the events of a dark past
which, in her own words, would have driven her mad had she tried to
relive it sooner. But while she records unimaginable atrocities,
she also richly describes the human compassion that stubbornly
survived despite the backdrop of camp depersonalization and
imminent extermination.
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