Links/Reading Research

Poland – General History

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Davies, Norman. Europe: A History. London: Pimlico Random House, 1997

Davies, Norman. God’s Playground: A History of Poland. 2 vols.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1982

Michener, James A. Poland. New York: Random House, 1983 (novel)

Zamoyski, Adam. The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture. London: John Murray Publishers, 1987

Polish Forces in World War Two

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Brodniewicz-Stadnicki, Margaret. For Your Freedom and Ours: The Polish Armed Forces in the Second World War. St.Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing Ltd. 1999

Ellis, John. Cassino – The Hollow Vistory. London: Andre Deutsch Ltd.1984
Hempel, Andrew. Poland in World War II: An Illustrated Military History. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2,000.

Kuniczak, W.S. The Thousand Hour Day. New York: The Dial Press, 1966 (novel)
Paul. Allen. Katyn: The Untold Story of Stalin’s Polish Massacre. New York: Charle’s Scribner’s Sons, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1991

Zaloga, Steven and Victor Madej. The Polish Campaign, 1939. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1991

Zamoyski, Adam. The Forgotten Few: The Polish Air Force in the Second World War. London: John Murray, 1995

Poland Under Nazi Occupation

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Lifton, Betty Jean. The King of Children: A Biography of Janusz Korczak. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux 1988

Lukas, Richard C. Did the Children Cry? Hitler’s War Against Jewish and Polish Children, 1939-45. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1994

The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997. Reflections by Ewa M. Thompson

Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1989.

Piotrowski, Tadeusz. Poland’s Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947. Jefferson NC: McFarland, 1998.

Poland Under Nazi Occupation – Memoirs

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Karski, Jan. Story of a Secret State. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1944

Kulski, Julian Eugeniusz. Dying, We Live – The Personal Chronicle of a Young Freedom Fighter, 1939-1945. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979

Piekarski, Kon. Escaping Hell: The Story of a Polish Underground Officer in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1989

Piotrowski, Tadeusz. Vengeance of the Swallows: Memoirs of a Polish Family’s Ordeal under Soviet Aggression, Ukrainian Ethnic Cleansing and Nazi Enslavement, and Their Emigration to America. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1995

Wituska, Irena. I am First a Human Being: The Prison Letters of Krystyna Wituska. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1997

Communism and the USSR

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Conquest, Robert. The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986

Courtois, Stephane et al.,eds. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression. Harvard University Press, 1999

Shifrin, Avraham. The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration Camps of the Soviet Union. New York: Bantam Books, 1982

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander I. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation. New York: Harper and Row, 1973

Poland Under Soviet Occupation

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Gross, Jan T. Revolution From Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland’s Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988

Malcher, George. Blank Pages: Soviet Genocide against the Polish People. Surrey, England: Pyrford Press.

Pinchuk, Ben-Cion. Shtetel Jews under Soviet Rule: Eastern Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1991

Piotrowski, Tadeusz. Poland’s Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947. Jefferson NC: McFarland, 1998

Sword, Keith. Deportation and Exile: Poles in the Soviet Union, 1939-48. London: St. Martin’s Press, 1994

Sword, Keith, ed. The Soviet Takeover of the Polish Eastern Provinces, 1939-1941. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991

Poland Under Soviet Occupation/Deportations – Memoirs

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Beaupre-Stankiewicz, Irena, Danuta Waszczuk-Kamieniecka, and Jadwiga Lewick-Howells, eds. 3rd ed. Isfahan: City of Polish Children. Hove, Sussex UK: Association of Former Pupils of Polish Schools, Isfahan and Lebanon. 1989

Fremont, Helen. After Long Silence: A Memoir. New York: Delacorte Press, 1999

Hergt, Klaus. Exiled to Siberia: A Polish Child’s WWII Journey. Cheboygan, Michigan: Crescent Lake Publishing, 2000

Herling, Gustav. A World Apart: Imprisonment in a Soviet Labour Camp During World War Two. Oxford University Press, 1987

Kojder, Apolonja Maria, and Barbara Glogowska. Marynia, Don’t Cry: Memoir of Two Polish-Canadian Families. Toronto: Muliticultural History Society of Ontario. 1995

Krolikowski, Lucjan. Stolen Childhood: A Saga of Polish War Children. Buffalo, NY: Father Justin Rosary Hour, 1983

Oancia, Sandra, Remember: Helen’s Story. Calgary: Detselig Enterprises Ltd, 1997

Skwarko, Krystyna. The Invited: The Story of 733 Polish Children who grew up in New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand: Millwood, 1974

Slowes, Salomon. The Road to Katyn: A Soldier’s Story. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1992

Topolski, Aleksander. Without Vodka: Wartime Adventures in Russia. Ottawa: UP Press, 1999

Poles and Jews

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Davies, Norman, and Antony Polonsky, eds. Jews in Eastern Poland and the USSR, 1939-46. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991

Karafilly, Irena Friedman. Ashes and Miracles: A Polish Journey. Toronto: Malcolm Lester Books, 1998

Lukas, Richard C. Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989.

Paul, Mark. Neighbours – On the Eve of the Holocaust: The Polish Minority and Jewish Collaboration in Soviet-Occupied Eastern Poland, 1939-1941. Toronto: PEFINA Press, 2001

Pogonowski, Iwo Cyprian, Jews in Poland: A Documentary History. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1993

Piotrowski, Tadeusz. Poland’s Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947. Jefferson NC: McFarland, 1998

Sack, John. An Eye for an Eye. New York: BasicBooks, 1993, 1995

Tomaszewski, Irene and Tecia Werbowski. Zegota: The Rescue of Jews in Wartime Poland. Montreal: Price-Patterson, 1994

Kielce – July 4, 1946: Background, Context and Events, a Collective Work. Toronto and Chicago: Polish Educational Foundation in North America, 1996

The Story of Two Shtetels – Bransk and Ejszyszki, an Overview of Polish-Jewish Relations in Northeastern Poland during World War Two, a Collective Work. Toronto and Chicago: Polish Educational Foundation in North America, 1998