Polish Witnesses to the Shoah

The Warsaw weekly Polityka issued the following appeal to its readers on the 50th anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: "We are asking those of you who still remember the circumstances of the Time of Humiliation to summon up scenes and images from memory. We are appealing to Poles who helped rescue Jews, to Polish witnesses of the persecution of the Jews and of the Holocaust...The aim is to recount events, including those whose narrators would rather forget about them, or never return to them." The people who were born before or during the war, and who found themselves on one side or the other of the ghetto wall, are the last participants in, and eyewitnesses to, the history of the Jews there. Polityka's appeal for recollections of scenes that 'cannot be forgotten' generated 225 submissions, 82 of which are collected in this volume. More than half a century later - and now available in paperback - the dilemmas, emotions, and doubts about their attitudes, and the behavior of t