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Fr Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski
Polish Priests and the Communist Secret Police

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This book tackles one of the most difficult and controversial issues in the history of the Polish Catholic Church that is the relation of the clergy towards the Communist secret police. Fr Isakowicz-Zaleski addresses the hot topic of the extent to which Poland’s Roman Catholic Church was infiltrated by communist security services. Using communist-era files, Isakowicz-Zaleski names both secret policemen and priests they aimed at.
The publication, based on the archives of communist secret services, which are now in the possession of Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance, has met with enormous interest since the onset of works on it, with readers signing up at bookstores to make sure they get a copy once the book is out.

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Joanna Olech
Pompom the Sink Dragon

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Pompom the Sink Dragon is a meaningful story about a dragon called Pompom, who appears in the Fisk family home by coming up the plughole in the bathroom sink and stays. He soon grows and matures intellectually, becoming a talkative and audacious dragon with creative, yet sometimes dangerous, ideas that he puts into practice.

He is looked after by Mr. and Mrs. Fisks’ children, Marina and Tancred. One day they take him to an ecology class at school.

This book is recommended for children from six to ten years of age. It has a humorous tone, while at the same time making some major observations about family life, and it is also a satire on modern life. Joanna Olech also drew the pictures.

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Joanna Olech
Pulpet, Prudencja and Pompom

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The famous dragon named Pompom, who appeared in the Fis family through the sink drain, married a pretty dragoness and has two children. They are a girl and a boy, Prudencja and Pulpet. The little dragons go to a normal school with the humans – they are very smart students – and they make friends with children. What they love the most are Halloween parties, since their costumes are perfect. Together with their human friends they travel to Transylvania to find their relatives, on a journey full of unusual adventures and funny
events. (Age 8+)

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Mikołaj Łoziński
Reisefieber

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An excellent, deeply moving début, Reisefieber tells the story of Daniel, a writer who comes to Paris after the death of his estranged mother. Only now, when it is too late, wanting to discover and preserve the waning truth about her, he desperately looks for it in the people, things and words she left behind. He also searches his own memory, but the snapshots it reluctantly ejects feature some barely recognisable people: himself and his mother, long ago, blurred and distant...

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Stanisław Aronson
Patrycja Bukalska
Rysiek of Special Operations Command

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This is the true story of Stanisław Aronson, born in 1925 in Warsaw into an assimilated Jewish family. The story takes us through his protected early life, in very good circumstances. However, World War II breaks out and everything around him collapses. The story then travels through the turmoil of escaping from the German advance, first from Łódź, then Warsaw, and later on further into eastern Poland. During this fascinating story we are witnesses to the Soviet occupation of Lwów, the tragic destruction of Warsaw, two years of combat service in an elite unit of the Polish underground army known as “Kedyw Kolegium A”, or Special Operations Command. We see images of some extremely memorable, hair-raising operations, real “Missions impossible” , followed by the Warsaw Uprising, during which Aronson is seriously wounded, the fall of the Old City and his escape from Warsaw in its death throes. Then comes bitter disillusionment when he realises that the entire Aronson family has died in Shoah. Then comes his final escape from Poland, just before the Soviet regime tightens its grip. Then Aronson serves in the famous Polish 2 Corps in Italy. The turning point in his life is his decision to emigrate to Palestine in 1947. Then he spends the rest of his life in Israel, where he develops a civilian career, as well as taking part in all the Middle Eastern wars of the 20th century.

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