Irene Tomaszewski is a writer and editor of CR. She is the co-author, with Tecia Werbowski, of "Codename Żegota: The Most Dangerous Conspiracy in Occupied Europe," published by Praeger in 2010, and translator /editor of "Inside a Gestapo Prison: The Letters of Krystyna Wituska" published by Wayne State University Press in 2005.
The Yale historian’s new book, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, is about the 14 million civilian deaths in the area between Berlin and Moscow at the hands of Hitler and Stalin in the space of 12 years. Western historians have been silent on this subject for far too long.
In Siberia, nature transcended Gulag; the earth and the sky were eternal while the Soviet regime, with its warped theories and senseless cruelties, was transitory. “We regarded them as a transient evil, a physical, brutal power which must sooner or later wither away.”
• The Peasant Prince
• In the Name of Their Mothers
• Katyn: The Untold Story Of Stalin’s Polish Massacre
Yes, those WWII death camps really were Germany’s camps, whether in Germany itself or in countries Nazi Germany occupied. If there were a “Teacher of the Year” award, it would certainly go to KF’s president, Alex Storozynski.
Secret Agent Krystyna Skarbek inspired Vesper Lynd, the double agent in James Bond’s Casino Royale, and impressed Winston Churchill with her beauty and smarts.
The 2010 Found in Translation Award goes to Danuta Borchardt for her translation of Pornografia by Polish literary giant Witold Gombrowicz.
Neal Pease’s Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter: the Catholic Church and Independent Poland, has been named co-winner of the 2010 ASEES/Orbis Book Prize for Polish Studies.
Aquila Polonica is about to release its third title, 303 Squadron: The Legendary Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron – about Poland’s dashing, brave and heroic pilots.
The event attracted an audience of academics, parliamentarians, students & a large general audience.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe was the keynote speaker at the Poland in the Rockies 2010 official banquet, & spoke about the history & future of Poland.
The 4th edition of the biennial Poland in the Rockies (PitR) symposium in Polish Studies, held in Canmore, Canada, hosted a dozen speakers & 40 students – incl. former US ambassador Victor Ashe & President of Kosciuszko Foundation Alex Storozynski.
For centuries, the biodiversity of the great forest of Poland’s eastern borderlands was the natural habitat for a diversity of cultures.
• Children in Exile
• Modjeska, Woman Triumphant
• Nine Days That Changed the World
• The Soviet Story
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