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Malka Owsiany recounts... : a chronicle of our time /

"Malka Owsiany was just 20 years old, recently liberated from the Ravensbrück concentration camp only seven months earlier, and had been living in Buenos Aires for mere weeks when she began sharing her story with Mark Turkow. A Polish-born Jewish journalist, writer, and cultural activist, Turko...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ṭurḳoṿ, Marḳ, 1904-1983 (Author), Owsiany, Malka, 1924 or 1925-2005 (Author)
Other Authors: Chiritescu, Sandra (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newton, MA : Cherry Orchard Books, an imprint of Academic Studies Press, 2025.
Subjects:
Owsiany, Malka, > 1924 or 1925-2005
Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) > Biography.
Jewish youth > Poland > Biography.
Jews > Poland > Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Personal narratives.
Holocaust survivors > Argentina > Buenos Aires > Biography.
Jewish women > Argentina > Buenos Aires > Biography.
Jews > Argentina > Buenos Aires > Biography.
Buenos Aires (Argentina) > Biography.
Jeunesse juive > Pologne > Biographies.
Juifs > Pologne > Biographies.
Survivants de l'Holocauste > Argentine > Buenos Aires > Biographies.
Juifs > Argentine > Buenos Aires > Biographies.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Malka Owsiany Recounts...
  • In the "Happy" Shtetl of Raków
  • This Is How It Began
  • Expulsion from Raków
  • The Polish Neighbors
  • The Last Jews in Chmielnik
  • The Tragic Twenty-Four Hours
  • Slave Work
  • In the Nazi War Industry
  • Slave Life
  • The Announcement of Collapse
  • When Digging German Trenches
  • Oświecim/Auschwitz
  • Number 68.313
  • The Republic of Imprisoned Women
  • In the Days of the Nazism's Death Throes
  • The End of Slavery
  • The Path to Freedom
  • New People
  • Freed : But Still Not Free
  • The Last Camp
  • The War Has Been Lost for Us (Instead of an Epilogue).