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I Came Home and There Was No One There: Conversations and Stories about the Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto<\/a><\/strong>
Hanka Grupi\u0144ska
Translated from the Polish by Jessica Taylor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Series: Jews of Poland
ISBN: 9798887192598 (hardcover) \/ 9798887192680 (paperback)
Pages: approx. 500 pp.; 215 illus. (b&w)
Publication Date: April 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PREORDER<\/a><\/strong>
25% discount with promotional code GRUPINSKA at www.academicstudiespress.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This book comprises interviews with some of the last surviving veterans of the Jewish Fighting Organization in the Warsaw ghetto, accompanied by never previously published photographic \u201cpostcards\u201d from a number of ghettoes, and a reconstruction of the only surviving contemporary list of those soldiers that strives to salvage vestiges of their stories from oblivion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first part of the book, \u201cStill Circling,\u201d is a collection of interviews with the last surviving soldiers of the Jewish Fighting Organization (\u017bOB), which fought in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The section opens with an interview recorded in 1985 with Marek Edelman, who at that time was the last living commander of the \u017bOB, and ends with another conversation with him recorded in 2000. The other interviewees included are also \u017bOB veterans\u2014rank-and-file soldiers, men and women. These veterans relate the stories of their homes and their backgrounds\u2014some were Bundists, others from Zionist or religious families\u2014followed by their recollections of how they experienced and remember the uprising, which provides several unique perspectives of shared episodes. Images include portraits of the interview subjects as well never before published photographs of the ghetto and its surroundings that are reminiscent of postcards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second part of the book, \u201cRereading the List,\u201d is intended to function like a litany of the names of the \u017bOB members who fought in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. This \u201clist\u201d was compiled by fighters in 1943 and discovered by the author in 2000. Each name is accompanied by a short story about the fighter\u2014sometimes only a sentence or two\u2014as well as any available photograph of the soldier. The list is followed by a reconstruction of the \u017bOB army, which captures its divisions and the places they fought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hanka Grupi\u0144ska, photo by Miko\u0142aj Starzy\u0144ski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Hanka Grupi\u0144ska<\/strong> is a writer and teacher. In the 1980s she collaborated with underground newspapers and was one of the co-founders of the Pozna\u0144-based quarterly Czas Kultury, <\/em>for which she wrote, translated, and edited texts. In the 1990s she lived in Israel, where she was cultural attach\u00e9 at the Polish embassy, and spent six years gathering material for her book on Hasidic women, Najtrudniej jest spotka\u0107 Lilit<\/em> (currently in translation under the working title Lilith among the Storks<\/em>). For several years, Grupi\u0144ska worked on documenting the history of the extermination of the Jews and is the author of several non-fiction volumes on the Holocaust. She has spent the last decade observing the vicissitudes of the Tibetan people, which captured in her volume Dalekowysoko. Tybeta\u0144czycy bez ziemi<\/em> (Highupandfaraway: Landless Tibetans<\/em>). She occasionally teaches creative writing classes at universities and colleges in Warsaw.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acknowledgements<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part One. Still Circling: Conversations with Soldiers of the Jewish Fighting Organization
Recording the Holocaust
What Was of Importance in the Ghetto? Nothing! Nothing! Don\u2019t Be Ridiculous!  
Back Then, There Were Many Legends . . .
Someone Must Have Pushed That Closet up Flush from Outside . . .
I\u2019m Telling You so Superficially Because I Don\u2019t Remember
Well, I\u2019m Here, Aren\u2019t I?!
Truth Be Told, I Left My House in 1942 and Never Went Back
And That\u2019s All My Life Story
I Know What I Know, And I Remember What I Remember
None of It Is of Any Significance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part Two. Rereading the List: Stories about the Soldiers of the Jewish Fighting Organization<\/p>\n\n\n\n

List of Those Who Fell in the Defense of the Warsaw Ghetto
A Rereading of the List
A Cemetery of Letters, a Cemetery of Words<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glossary
Bibliography     
Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(b&w)Publication Date: April 2023\nPREORDER25% discount with promotional code GRUPINSKA at www.academicstudiespress.com\nThis book comprises interviews with some of the last surviving veterans of the Jewish Fighting Organization in the Warsaw ghetto, accompanied by never previously published photographic \u201cpostcards\u201d from a number of ghettoes, and a reconstruction of the only surviving contemporary list of those soldiers that strives to salvage vestiges of their stories from oblivion.\nThe first part of the book, \u201cStill Circling,\u201d is a collection of interviews with the last surviving soldiers of the Jewish Fighting Organization (\u017bOB), which fought in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The section opens with an interview recorded in 1985 with Marek Edelman, who at that time was the last living commander of the \u017bOB, and ends with another conversation with him recorded in 2000. The other interviewees included are also \u017bOB veterans\u2014rank-and-file soldiers, men and women. These veterans relate the stories of their homes and their backgrounds\u2014some were Bundists, others from Zionist or religious families\u2014followed by their recollections of how they experienced and remember the uprising, which provides several unique perspectives of shared episodes. Images include portraits of the interview subjects as well never before published photographs of the ghetto and its surroundings that are reminiscent of postcards.\nThe second part of the book, \u201cRereading the List,\u201d is intended to function like a litany of the names of the \u017bOB members who fought in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. This \u201clist\u201d was compiled by fighters in 1943 and discovered by the author in 2000. Each name is accompanied by a short story about the fighter\u2014sometimes only a sentence or two\u2014as well as any available photograph of the soldier. The list is followed by a reconstruction of the \u017bOB army, which captures its divisions and the places they fought.\nHanka Grupi\u0144ska is a writer and teacher. In the 1980s she collaborated with underground newspapers and was one of the co-founders of the Pozna\u0144-based quarterly Czas Kultury, for which she wrote, translated, and edited texts. In the 1990s she lived in Israel, where she was cultural attach\u00e9 at the Polish embassy, and spent six years gathering material for her book on Hasidic women, Najtrudniej jest spotka\u0107 Lilit (currently in translation under the working title Lilith among the Storks). For several years, Grupi\u0144ska worked on documenting the history of the extermination of the Jews and is the author of several non-fiction volumes on the Holocaust. She has spent the last decade observing the vicissitudes of the Tibetan people, which captured in her volume Dalekowysoko. Tybeta\u0144czycy bez ziemi (Highupandfaraway: Landless Tibetans). She occasionally teaches creative writing classes at universities and colleges in Warsaw.\nTable of Contents\nAcknowledgements\n Part One. Still Circling: Conversations with Soldiers of the Jewish Fighting Organization Recording the Holocaust What Was of Importance in the Ghetto? Nothing! Nothing! Don\u2019t Be Ridiculous! Back Then, There Were Many Legends . . . Someone Must Have Pushed That Closet up Flush from Outside . . . I\u2019m Telling You so Superficially Because I Don\u2019t Remember Well, I\u2019m Here, Aren\u2019t I?! Truth Be Told, I Left My House in 1942 and Never Went Back And That\u2019s All My Life Story I Know What I Know, And I Remember What I Remember None of It Is of Any Significance\nPart Two. Rereading the List: Stories about the Soldiers of the Jewish Fighting Organization\n List of Those Who Fell in the Defense of the Warsaw Ghetto A Rereading of the List A Cemetery of Letters, a Cemetery of Words\nGlossaryBibliography Index"},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2023\/04\/11\/book-by-hanka-grupinska-i-came-home-and-there-was-no-one-there-conversations-and-stories-about-the-uprising-in-the-warsaw-ghetto\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2023-04-11-at-3.24.58-PM.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2023-04-11-at-3.24.58-PM.png","width":1492,"height":936},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2023\/04\/11\/book-by-hanka-grupinska-i-came-home-and-there-was-no-one-there-conversations-and-stories-about-the-uprising-in-the-warsaw-ghetto\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Book by Hanka Grupi\u0144ska: I Came Home and There Was No One There: Conversations and Stories about the Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#website","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/","name":"Instytut Polski w Nowym Jorku","description":"Instytuty Polskie","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"pl-PL"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#\/schema\/person\/04d40cd80c1729a7f440613bee4073b6","name":"klaudia","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/649cd2d4f6b3f48c5bf42d51f7e665fb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/649cd2d4f6b3f48c5bf42d51f7e665fb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"klaudia"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/lukasz.sienkiewicz@msz.gov.pl"],"url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/author\/stypulkowskaa\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8319,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8149\/revisions\/8319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}