A Conversation with Joanna Wiszniewicz
We live in the best country in the world. A free country where the rights of the individual are respected. When there is some question or doubt about these rights, there’s always an explanation, right? Poles saved Jews during World War II. Today Poles can sleep peacefully, with a clean conscience. But then why does […]
Heroes and Criminals – To Survive KZ Sachsenhausen
In the late nineties during a yacht journey through the Canadian lakes, I met a tall and slim elderly sailor, Professor Jerzy Pindera. His springy military walk revealed a man full of energy, a man always in search of action and challenge. His personage was engulfed with the legend of horrific war experiences. Seriously wounded […]
On the Anniversary of the Battle of Monte Cassino
Writing these remarks at the request of our editor- in–chief, I first wish to say that I did not take part in the Battle of Monte Cassino, having fought the battle of the River Bzura. But that is another story. A great deal has been written about the Battle of Monte Cassino beginning with the […]
Twentieth Century Changes
In The Clarinet Polka, a novel about Polish Americans in a town very similar to Wheeling, West Virginia, the author Keith Maillard describes an encounter between two Polish Americans. The son of a working class Polish family living in the town’s Polish neighborhood pays a visit to a family that arrived after World War II […]
The Tragedy of W. S. Kuniczak
Wieslaw S. Kuniczak, born in Lwow in 1930, died on September 20 at Quakertown Hospital near Philadelphia at the age of seventy. We may be to close to his death to sum up his literary heritage. (…) His opus magnum is monumental trilogy consisting of The Thousand Hour Day, The March and Valedictory. The initial […]