Seweryna Szmaglewska - Dymy nad Birkenau. Smoke over Birkenau. First edition, 1945

Seweryna Szmaglewska - Dymy nad Birkenau. Smoke over Birkenau. First edition, 1945

We continue the topic of difficult but important books, not only for Poles, but also for the cultural and historical heritage of the nation and the Jewish State.

"Blood has fallen on the walls, floors, bricks here and tells about the people who died here. They stayed where their blood was shed. It's nothing that the walls were whitewashed later with lime. These walls are still red."

These are a few sentences quoted from the presented work.

One of the most important testimonies of the fate of prisoners and victims of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, and at the same time one of the first literary accounts of hell on earth.

After being arrested by the Gestapo, Seweryna Szmaglewska spent two and a half years in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, where she experienced exhausting physical work and several serious illnesses. When in January 1945 the prisoners of the camp were chased in a death march, she managed to escape. From the first days of freedom, she began to describe the unimaginable. This is how the first documentary about the Nazi extermination machine was produced within a few months. The book was published before the end of 1945.

Physical description of the item:

SZMAGLEWSKA Seweryn

WE SMOKE ABOVE BIRKENAU

first edition

"Czytelnik" Publishing Cooperative 1945, p. 302, format 15x21 cm

SOFT COVER

VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NICE COPY

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