In this most timely book, Richard C. Lukas offers the historical perspective that any reader, scholar, or layman needs to grasp the political turmoil in Poland in the decades after World War II. Bitter Legacy is the first major analysis of Polish-American relations from the Pots…
Out of the inferno: Poles remember the Holocaust
"" Richard Lukas's book, encompassing the wartime recollections of sixty ""ordinary"" Poles under Nazi occupation, constitutes a valuable contribution to a new perspective on World War II. Lukas presents gripping first-person accounts of the years 1939-1945 by Polish Christians …
A collection of testimonies by sixty Christian Poles, most of them derived from interviews with the editor or written depositions never before published. They describe the period 1939-45, and include accounts of their attempts to save Jews. See the introduction (pp. 1-14) for a …
"" Richard Lukas's book, encompassing the wartime recollections of sixty ""ordinary"" Poles under Nazi occupation, constitutes a valuable contribution to a new perspective on World War II. Lukas presents gripping first-person accounts of the years 1939-1945 by Polish Christians …
An unprecedented aspect of Nazi genocide in World War II was the cold and deliberate decision not to spare the children. Jewish children, first driven into the ghettos, were marked for total destruction as part of the "Final Solution" once it was put into effect, in 1942. Gentil…