Born 1954 · Poland
Nike 2026 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Not the End, Not the Beginning: The Postwar Choices of Polish Jews”
Anna Bikont · 71 when first published
Nonfiction · 407 pages · Historical, Migration
AI-generated summary:Reportage on Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust and, in the first years after the war, had to decide whether to stay in the country where their families lay buried or leave it and start again.
Nike 2023 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Price: In Search of Jewish Children after the War”
Anna Bikont · 67 when first published
Nonfiction · 463 pages · Historical, War
AI-generated summary:In 1947 and 1948 Lejb Majzels travelled Poland in search of fifty-two Jewish children who had survived the Holocaust in Polish care. Seventy years later the author follows his notebooks to find them.
Nike 2018 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Sendler: In Hiding”
Anna Bikont · 63 when first published
Nonfiction · 477 pages · Historical, War
AI-generated summary:A biography of Irena Sendler, the Polish woman who helped save Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto, forgotten for decades until a play by American schoolgirls made her famous in 2001.
Nike 2005 · Shortlist
My z Jedwabnego
Anna Bikont · 50 when first published
Nonfiction · 417 pages · Historical, War, Politics
AI-generated summary:A reporter spends four years reconstructing the murder of the Jews of Jedwabne by their Polish neighbours in July 1941, and what happened to the memory of that crime over the following sixty years.