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Communist Poland: A Jewish Woman's Experience is the first-person account by Jewish journalist Sara Nomberg-Przytyk of surviving Auschwitz then rising to various leadership roles in the newly-formed postwar Polish Communist Party. Building a just and equitable Poland for the common Pole through communism was her dream. The reality was neither simple nor successful. Working for heavily censored newspapers and periodicals, Nomberg-Przytyk witnessed firsthand the inner workings of a communist government plagued by the same Kafkaesque bureaucracy and antisemitism that she had been certain it would fix. Her memoir provides a comprehensive account as she slowly changed from enthusiastic practitioner to witness of a system that failed her and many others. This is the first published edition of this text, originally recorded as oral testimony in Polish but translated into English by Paula Parsky, and includes a critical introduction by the co-editors, American and Polish academics Holli Levitsky and Justyna Wlodarczyk, as well as extensive annotations.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 My First Day in the New Poland
Chapter 2 A Piece of White Bread
Chapter 3 An Armed Soldier at the Door of the Party Committee of Lublin
Chapter 4 A Parade of People and Portraits
Chapter 5 My First Victory
Chapter 6 I Meet My Destined One
Chapter 7 Small Candles Among the Ruins
Chapter 8 Old Friends in the New Poland
Chapter 9 The Kielce Pogrom
Chapter 10 You Don't Know Me
Chapter 11 A New Job
Chapter 12 Why We Needed a 99% Majority in the Elections
Chapter 13 Tell Me—Is It Possible?
Chapter 14 The Miracle in Lublin
Chapter 15 The Ruins of the War Will Disappear; In Their Places New Houses Will Stand
Chapter 16 You Are Going to Die
Chapter 17 I Want To, But My Wife Doesn't
Chapter 18 The Light in the Shadows of the New Times
Chapter 19 Threat of Provocation Looming Over My Head
Chapter 20 The Death of a Dictator
Chapter 21 Nothing has Changed - 'The Jews are Guilty'
Chapter 22 Opportunism Wins Out
Chapter 23 At the New Job
Chapter 24 In the Chains of Bureaucracy
Chapter 25 New Schools and Water in Peasant Houses - Optimistic Accents in the 1960s
Chapter 26 Is This the Role of a Journalist in Poland?
Chapter 27 My First Book
Chapter 28 The Pillars of Samson
Chapter 29 Jews in Auschwitz
Chapter 30 The Six-Day War
Chapter 31 Feelings of Terror and Insecurity Return
Chapter 32 The Polish Spring of 1968
Chapter 33 A Beilis-like Trial Against My Husband
Chapter 34 We Can No Longer Eat Bread Full of Worms
Chapter 35 As Though After a Pogrom
Chapter 36 The Last Stage of Our Exodus
Chapter 37 On the Road
Chapter 38 The Day of Escape for Jews in Poland
Epilogue I am at Home
