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Zygmunt Klukowski (1885–1959)

Autor(a) de Diary from the Years of Occupation 1939-44

6 Works 20 Membros 1 Review

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Image credit: Zygmunt Klukowski, 1950

Obras por Zygmunt Klukowski

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1885-01-23
Data de falecimento
1959-11-23
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Pologne
País (no mapa)
Pologne
Local de nascimento
Odessa, Ukraine
Local de falecimento
Szczebrzeszyn, Lublin, Poland
Locais de residência
Odessa, Russia
Szczebrzeszyn, Poland
Educação
Moscow University (medicine)
Ocupações
physician
historian
memoirist
diarist
resistance member
Holocaust survivor
Organizações
Hôpital Ste Catherine, Szczebrzeszyn, Pologne (Directeur ∙ 19 19 ∙ )
Bibliophile Council, Cracovie (Membre)
Book Lovers Society, Cracovie (Membre)
Good Book Club de Varsovie (Membre)
Teka Zamojska, Magazine littéraire (Rédacteur en chef)
Comité pour la reconstruction des écoles, Szczebrzeszyn (Cofondateur ∙ 1945) (mostrar todos 7)
Bibliothèque publique municipale, Szczebrzeszyn (Initiateur, 19 48)
Prémios e menções honrosas
Ordre de la Renaissance, Pologne
Croix du Mérite polonais

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Dr. Zygmunt Klukowski was a surgeon and the chief physician of the Zamosc County Hospital in the town of Szczebrzeszyn, south of Lublin, Poland. A veteran of World War I, the Russian Civil War, and the Polish-Russian War of 1920-1921, he also was respected as a historian. He kept a daily diary in which he chronicled the Nazi Occupation of his country in World War II. He also served in the Polish underground resistance. Because of the potential danger of discovery of his writings, he concealed his manuscripts, often changing their hiding place. This extraordinary document was published in Poland in 1959, shortly before his death, and translated into English in 1993 as Journal from the Years of Occupation, 1939-44. With this book, Dr. Klukowski became known worldwide as an important eyewitness to this period in Polish history.

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I was disappointed by this book at first because this diary wasn't nearly as detailed as Dr. Klukowski's Nazi-era one. Klukowski was heavily involved in underground activity under the Communists as well as the Nazis and was, I think, afraid to say too much. He referred to everyone by code names and wrote in a very oblique way much of the time because he knew what the consequences would be if the diary were to be discovered by the Soviet authorities. Certainly I could understand all this, but the result was that I didn't know what Klukowski was talking about half the time and was very frustrated.

Things picked up quite a bit though, when it came to his prison memoirs in the second half of the book. That's what made the book worth reading for me. Klukowski wrote about his prison experience in the manner of a documentary, trying to tell as much as he could, as accurately as he could. He wrote matter-of-factly and without self-pity. I had to admire the inmates and their various methods of coping with the terrible conditions.

This is a valuable book for those interested in post-WW2 Poland and the Soviet occupation. I think I still like Klukowski's Nazi occupation diaries better, though.
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meggyweg | Mar 2, 2011 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
6
Membros
20
Popularidade
#589,235
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
1
ISBN
6
Línguas
3