niedziela, 15 stycznia 2017

"Przebieg wydarzeń"

Jacek Podsiadło
"Włos Bregueta"
Poznań 2016


Jacek Podsiadło

Przebieg wydarzeń

Dnia 22 lipca około godziny 5 po południu na rynku w Ostrowcu
chłopiec żydowski został uderzony kijem
przez Jana Sucholewskiego, epileptyka.
W odwecie chłopak cisnął kamieniem, którym ugodzony
epileptyk Sucholewski doznał ataku epileptycznego.
Policja podniosła go z ziemi, zaniosła do magistratu.
Przechodzący przypadkiem
Józef Sucholewski, brat epileptyka,
wszczął awanturę z żydami.
Żydzi, zabiliście mi brata.
Wieść się rozniosła.
Żydzi zabili epileptyka i chrześcijankę.
Zjedli też jedno dziecko.
Robotnicy z kijami i kamieniami
zgrupowali się w rynku.
Zostało pobitych żydów 24,
z czego dość lekko 23,
1 zaś Jankiel Borenstein umarł.
Wybito szyb około 1000.
Zniszczono okien 24 i drzwi 4.
Jeden z domków żydowskich został poważnie zniszczony.
Masowych kradzieży nie było.
Miały miejsca kradzieże, lecz w małych rozmiarach.

sobota, 7 stycznia 2017

Gone To Pitchipoi

"Gone To Pitchipoi:
A Boy's Desperate Fight For Survival In Wartime"
Rubin Katz
Academic Studies Press, 2013

This vivid and moving memoir describes the survival of a Jewish child in the hell of Nazi occupied Poland. Rubin Katz was born in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyskie, Poland, in 1931. This town, located in the picturesque countryside of central Poland 42 miles south of Radom, had in 1931 a population of nearly 30,000, of whom more than a third were Jews. The persistence of traditional ways of life and the importance of the local hasidic rebbe, Yechiel-Meier (Halevi) Halsztok, as well as the introduction of such modernities as bubble gum, are clearly and effectively described here.
This memoir is remarkable for the ability of its author to recall so many events in detail and for the way he is able to be fair to all those caught up in the tragic dilemmas of those years. It is a major contribution to our understanding of the fate of Jews in smaller Polish towns during the Second World War and the conditions which made it possible for some of them, like Rubin, to survive.

Editorial Reviews
Review
"[Katz's] story is compelling, drawing you in with each twist of fate and ingenuity as he defies detection and death time and time again. Beautifully and insightfully told, his story takes us behind the scenes. We see the normality of life for those who were not under threat and simultaneously the hostility and treachery that threatened those who were marked for death."--Dr. Stephen D. Smith, OBE Executive Director, USC Shoah Foundation Institute

"Although completed more than sixty years after the events it describes, the memoir is remarkable for the ability of its author to recall so many events in detail and for the way he is able to be fair to all those caught up in the tragic dilemmas of those years. It is a major contribution to our understanding of the fate of Jews in smaller Polish towns during the Second World War and the conditions which made it possible for some of them, like Rubin...to survive..." --Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies

About the Author
Rubin Katz was born in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyskie, Poland, where his family owned and ran the Amor confectionery factory. He now resides in England, where he founded a successful clothing business under the same name.

Źródło: amazon