On the Run in Occupied Poland
University of Rochester Press (Verlag)
978-1-64825-150-4 (ISBN)
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On the Run in Occupied Poland presents the daily wartime experiences of a Polish-Catholic girl. Written as an adult by Grażyna Gross, née Połtowicz (1931-2022), this collection of vignettes communicates uncannily the perspective of the child Gross was at the time, while also conveying her adult thoughts on the strategies human beings deploy to stay alive as refugees in times of war.
This unusual contribution to the history of Occupied Poland highlights the fates of dispossessed Polish families as a result of both the Russian Revolution and the division of Poland in World War II.
Providing concrete details of lived experience during these monumental events, this "paramemoir" constitutes a type of life-writing that goes beyond a single individual. It is a life story with enhancements in the form of factual footnotes, rare photographic evidence, maps, and contextualizing commentary in the form of essays by Joyce Gross, the author's daughter, Irene Kacandes, a professor and friend, and Aleksandra Szczepan, a scholar educated in Kraków, the town in which Gross spent the longest period of the war.
A compelling source for further research into how the occupation of Poland from both East and West affected non-Jewish Poles, this book will be treasured by historians as well as ordinary readers for its surprising insights into a difficult refugee childhood that overshadowed a whole life.
IRENE KACANDES is Professor Emerita of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. GRAŻYNA GROSS (1931-2022) survived displacement and refugeedom as a young Polish girl during the Second World War and spent most of her adult life in Ithaca, NY. JOYCE GROSS is a database and web programmer for the UC Berkeley Natural History Museums. Her tribute to her mother is at https://joycegross.com/note/2022/04/25/grazyna. ALEKSANDRA SZCZEPAN is a post-doc researcher on a joint initiative of the Professorship for Slavic Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Potsdam, Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, and the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, DE.
A Prefatory Note from the Editor
Map
On the Run in Occupied Poland: Tales of a Refugee Childhood by Grażyna Gross
Chapter One, Maria and Mirek
Chapter Two, Heniuś
Chapter Three, Maybe Not a Story
Chapter Four, Letter to an Unknown Man
Chapter Five, The Shoemaker's Son
Chapter Six, The Doctor's Daughter
Chapter Seven, The Fortune Teller
Chapter Eight, The Root Canal
Chapter Nine, The Day Papa Left
Chapter Ten, Tereska
Chapter Eleven, The Picture Album, Part One
Chapter Twelve, Half-Boarders
Chapter Thirteen, Józefina's Mistress
Chapter Fourteen, The Psychic
Chapter Fifteen, The Gloves
Chapter Sixteen, The Ring
Chapter Seventeen A Boy
Chapter Eighteen, Uncle Kot
Chapter Nineteen, A Dinner
Chapter Twenty, A Christmas Story
Chapter Twenty-One, Letter to Józefina
Chapter Twenty-Two, The Sled
Chapter Twenty-Three, The Watch
Chapter Twenty-Four, Typhus
Chapter Twenty-Five, Justyna
Chapter Twenty-Six, Mrs. Kraus
Chapter Twenty-Seven, The Picture Album, Part Two
Chapter Twenty-Eight, Peace
Chapter Twenty-Nine, A Night in Regensburg
Chapter Thirty Evhen
Chapter Thirty-One, School
Chapter Thirty-Two, EH
Chapter Thirty-Three, The Girl from Furth
Chapter Thirty-Four, Father Zeisel
Chapter Thirty-Five, Mama
Afterwords
Mothers and Daughters-and Grandmothers, by Joyce Gross
What is Historic? What is Heroic?, by Aleksandra Szczepan
My Friend the Writer, by Irene Kacandes
Appendices
Timeline
Notes to the Tales
Family Photos
Extract from the Polish Notebooks
Card from Henryk Połtowicz at Gross-Rosen to his daughter
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.4.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe |
| Co-Autor | Joyce Gross, Aleksandra Szczepan |
| Zusatzinfo | 39 b/w illus. |
| Verlagsort | Rochester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-64825-150-1 / 1648251501 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-64825-150-4 / 9781648251504 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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