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The events of 1968 therefore came as a shock to me. [ . . . ]
One could of course continue to claim that it was not the people but only those horrible communists, those monstrous rulers, who with…
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Adam Michnik
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Polish People’s Republic (Poland)
Date:
1973
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Every now and then a different door in the long corridor of the IsPolKom [Executive Committee] would yawn open, partly exposing the profiles of the office workers, emit a hum of muffled chatter and…
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Peretz Markish
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1928
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When Dmitri Baltermants took this picture in January 1942, he and the other Soviet photographers who were accompanying liberating troops did not at first understand what they were seeing. Were these…
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Dmitri Baltermants
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1942
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The compartment of the Berlin–Warsaw–Moscow train is warm and pleasant. The dining car is fully packed. One can hear various languages—French, German, English, Russian, Chinese, and…
Contributor:
Israel Joshua Singer
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1928
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For the role of scapegoat, the prestidigitators chose Jews.
Rattling around in the recesses of their memory were recollections about how prewar governments in…
Contributor:
Zygmunt Bauman
Places:
Warsaw, Polish People’s Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1968