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Not a history book, the author says, but a book about memory, or rather two memories that never meet, of her two families, Polish and Jewish. She traces her father's Jewish ancestors, of whom nobody spoke at home, through prewar newspapers, archives, land registers, telephone books and old photographs sent to relatives in America and Australia, following them between Międzeszyn, the Warsaw ghetto, Radom, Złoczów and Auschwitz. With the same care she describes her mother's colourful Polish-Saxon family, the Lacherts: a card-winning founder, a famous architect, a businessman in tsarist Russia, a nationalist politician.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

280 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Historical, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland

First published

2016 by Wydawnictwo Czarne

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9788380494060 (original)