Blood from the Sky

Piotr Rawicz

1961

The only garden left in our walled-up town was the old cemetery, whose earliest graves dated back to the thirteenth century. It was densely overgrown. Picking one’s way to its remoter corners meant battling through whole armies of ferns and weeds. One advanced like a diver among the plants on the seabed. In the old days, around the tombstones of…

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Piotr Rawicz

1919–1982

The novelist Piotr Rawicz was born in Lemberg (today Lviv), where he studied law and Eastern languages. Despite going underground to avoid arrest by the Nazis, Rawicz was caught by the Gestapo and was sent to Auschwitz as a Ukrainian political prisoner rather than as a Jew. In 1947, he settled in Paris, where he served as a diplomatic correspondent and press attaché to the Polish delegation. Rawicz was awarded the Prix Rivarol for his novel Blood from the Sky, a surrealistic account of his wartime experiences. He took his own life.

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