The Cabaret Star and the Orphans: From Warsaw to India
Lithe, blonde, willowy and a free spirit, prewar cabaret star Hanka Ordonowna was to become a wartime rescuer of children and a sensitive chronicler of their harrowing story.
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2013 Vol. 5 No. 2 — Summer / Features / Music
2013 Vol. 5 No. 2 — Summer / Books
The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
“Can we make the past okay?” Michal Kasprzak weighs in on Marci Shore’s journey into the world of no innocent choices.
2013 Vol. 5 No. 2 — Summer / Books
Vera Gran: The Accused
When Isaac Bashevis Singer said fate “is a trap we set for ourselves,” surely he wasn’t thinking of the Warsaw Ghetto. Two reviewers take issue with Agata Tuszynska’s biography of Vera Gran.
2011 Vol 3. No. 2 — Summer / Books
The Katyń Order – A Novel of WWII Reviewed
American novelist Doug Jacobson weaves a fictional tale against the background of the great crime.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 2 — Summer / Books
Polish Orphans of Tengeru: The Dramatic Story of Their Long Journey to Canada 1941-49
Author Lynne Taylor documents the dramatic story of a group of Polish orphans who were exiled to Siberia, escaped via the Middle East, and grew up in Africa. They finally came to Canada – in defiance of claims by the communist regime that the children belong to them.
2009 — Summer / Books
Katyń: A Crime Without Punishment
Katyń: A Crime Without Punishment is the latest volume in “The Annals of Communism” series published by Yale University Press. Rightly described as the most important publishing project currently in progress in the United States, it documents the 70-year reign of terror that began with the Communist revolution in Russia and has been largely ignored by western intellectuals – when not actively indulged by them.
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