History of a Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town

Kupferberg, later Miedzianka, a small town near Jelenia Góra, is gone: its inn where wives gossiped while husbands sang, its dances, brewery, paper mill and workshops, the seamstress and the woman who sold butter and eggs, the cemetery whose gravestones were dragged out with tractors. After the war the Soviets came to mine uranium, and the town had only a few decades left. From former residents, scraps of memory and old documents, the author asks whether the ruthless mining of 1948 to 1952 destroyed it, or whether the authorities invented the damage to tear it down.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland

First published

2011 by Wydawnictwo Czarne

Author's age

29 when first published

ISBN

9781632061157 (Restless Books, United States)