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In this book Henryk Grynberg takes an extraordinary collection of interviewsconducted by representatives of the Polish government in exile in Palestine in1943 and arranges them in such a way that their voices become unforgettable.The interviewees all Polish children tell of the experiences during thewar. Grynberg has not used the traditional form but rather turns the voices ofthe children into one large choral group. This technique gives the reader theimpression of overwhelming sameness while paradoxically featuring the subtledifferences in the childrens experiences.In the first section the children recall their lives before the war most werewell off. They discuss their memories of when the war broke out the arrivalof the Germans and the Russians and their journeys into and experiences inexile. We also hear them talk about the increasingly desperate conditions afterthe Sikorski Agreement allowed them to leave the work camps and the ways manyof them coped as orphans.The cumulative effect of so many different voices discussing similar horrors isshocking and makes this book unlike any other work on the Holocaust. «
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