Memories of Christmas Eve
The year was 1943 and the winter, as is usual in the Bialystok region, was harsh. The trees looked like glassy, motionless objects. Houses in the entire town stood shrouded in melancholy and dread. As night fell, the lights went dark in the windows, leaving only the moon casting its glow among distant cold stars. […]
A Child’s View of the Warsaw Uprising
As part of the European Union program, „Europe for Citizens”, the Museum of the City of Warsaw has published an anthology of writings in Polish, English, and German. Below is an abbreviated version of the story of an eleven-year-old girl. Our family was intact at the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising (my parents must have […]