The Death of Captain Pilecki and Dealing with the Communist Past
Poland’s magnificent non-violent revolution altered the course of history. Justice demands that this history be not forgotten.
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2012 vol. 4 no. 1 — Spring / Commentary / Features
2012 vol. 4 no. 1 — Spring / Interviews
Pilecki, Poland and Hollywood: A Conversation with Marek Probosz
In a conversation with Justine Jablonska, the multi-talented actor/writer/director speaks of the honor and responsibility of playing Witold Pilecki, a hero whose story could not be suppressed.
2011 Vol. 3 No. 4 — Winter / Features
Hacienda Santa Rosa: a Polish Refuge in Mexico
A harrowing 20-thousand kilometer odyssey ended with an unforgettable welcome in Mexico. Piotr Piwowarczyk, who is making a film about it, tells the story.
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Features
Stefan Norblin: An Artist Comes Home
The largest single collection of Polish art is not in Poland, but in India. A special exhibit brings it home, at least for a visit, attracting thousands of visitors to a visual feast.
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Films
Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness – A Promise Fulfilled
Agnieszka Holland’s latest film is dedicated to Marek Edleman, the legendary leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and evokes passages of his book: “And there was love, too, in the ghetto…”
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Films / Interviews
Children in Exile: Recollections of Children Deported to the Soviet Gulag
Chicago-based filmmaker Chris Swider discusses his award-winning documentary, and why he chose to focus on the youngest “enemies of the State.”
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Books
Lost Between Worlds
Exquisitely graceful prose and a powerful story make Edward Herzbaum’s journals read like a novel, a timeless telling of the years 1939-1945.
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Books
Passage from England: A Memoir
Frank Zajaczkowski’s memoir about growing up in a dysfunctional family and eventually learning his father’s story and coming to understand it.
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Books
Maps and Shadows
Krysia Jopek’s story of a gentle family uprooted by people who rearrange borders without hearing the gunshots or seeing the victims.
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Films
The Labyrinth: The Testimony of Marian Kołodziej
Recovery following a near fatal stroke unlocks memories buried for more than 50 years, which Marian Kołodziej renders into pen and ink drawings covering several rooms of his Labyrinth in the town of Harmęże, Poland. Ron Schmidt’s brilliant film allows you to enter that labyrinth, alone and in silence.
2011 Vol 3. No. 2 — Summer / Books
Wojtek the Bear: Polish War Hero
Private Wojtek really was a member of the Polish II Corps, saw action at Monte Cassino, Ancona and Bologna. As one Italian newspaper put it: Wojtek l’orso che libero l’Italia. Wojtek now has a monument in Edinburgh and in Poland. Rome, anyone?
2011 Vol 3. No. 2 — Summer / Books
Scotland and Poland: for Auld Lang Syne
By the time the Scots and the Poles renewed their acquaintance during World War II, “the Poles often began by assuming that the Scots were a sort of English… and the Scots in turn by assuming that Poles were a sort of Russian.” A temporary misunderstanding that soon led to a solid friendship.
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.
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