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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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Blood from the Sky
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…