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Recovered Land
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Recovered Land Hardcover - 1995

by Alicia Nitecki; Foreword by Norman Davies


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Part memoir, part history, this eloquent collection of essays records the author's travels to places in Poland and Germany where she lived as a young child during World War II. Alicia Nitecki was born in Warsaw to a Catholic family that was active in the resistance movement. Following the Nazi conquest of Poland, she and her relatives were dispersed to German prisoner-of-war, labor, and concentration camps. In this book, she revisits the places that have formed her and confronts a past that has haunted her: Warsaw during the 1944 uprising, the Black Forest village where she and the women in her family were taken as slaves in the last months of the war, and Buchenwald and Flossenb1/4rg, the concentration camps where her grandfather was imprisoned. Nitecki's private odyssey coincided with the collapse of communism in Poland and the reunification of Germany. These essays mark her movement from fear and rage toward fuller knowledge and reconciliation.

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Alicia Nitecki was born in Warsaw to a Catholic family that was active in the resistance movement. Following the Nazi conquest of Poland, she and her relatives were dispersed to German prisoner-of-war, labor, and concentration camps. In this book, she revisits the places that have formed her and confronts a past that has haunted her: Warsaw during the 1944 uprising, the Black Forest village where she and the women in her family were taken as slaves in the last months of the war, and Buchenwald and Flossenburg, the concentration camps where her grandfather was imprisoned. Nitecki's private odyssey coincided with the collapse of communism in Poland and the reunification of Germany. These essays mark her movement from fear and rage toward fuller knowledge and reconciliation.

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  • Title Recovered Land
  • Author Alicia Nitecki; Foreword by Norman Davies
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 136
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst
  • Date 1995
  • ISBN 9780870239762 / 0870239767
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.6 x 5.79 x 0.76 in (24.38 x 14.71 x 1.93 cm)
  • Reading level 1210
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Poland, World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94-41650
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940

About the author

Alicia Nitecki is associate professor of English at Bentley College and founding editor of the American Nature Writing Newsletter.
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