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Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History

By Jozef Czapski, Alissa Valles (Translator), Irena Grudzinska Gross (Introduction)
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By Jozef Czapski, Alissa Valles (Translator), Irena Grudzinska Gross (Introduction)
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Vivid accounts of life in a Soviet prison camp by the author of Inhuman Land.

Interned with thousands of Polish officers in the Soviet prisoner-of-war camp at Starobielsk in September 1939, Józef Czapski was one of a very small number to survive the massacre in the forest of Katyń in April 1940. Memories of Starobielsk portrays these doomed men, some with the detail of a finished portrait, others in vivid sketches that mingle intimacy with respect, as Czapski describes their struggle to re...

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