Olszewski Krystyn (6 results)

Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. text is in English, 195pp.,

Hardcover. 1st U.S. Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, bound in faux concentration camp stripes with prisoner label, LACKS SPINE else very good with a touch of tanning to the paper, an inevitably poorly produced post war book on the the authors' experiences in the camps, scarce.(VV5/1).

Condition: Fine condition. Second edition. Numbered copy. Second edition. Numbered copy. In publisher's wrappers with the emblem of the Polish Red Cross on the front, stamped number on the rear. 15 [1] p. (binding included). Scarce Borowski publication. Poszukiwania (Tracing) is a rare and historically significant publication by Tadeusz Borowski and Krystyn Olszewski. Published in 1945 by Oficyna Warszawska, a press founded in Munich by Anatol Girs, the work serves as both a literary and humanitarian artifact of the immediate post-World War II period. Anatol Girs, a celebrated Polish graphic artist and concentration camp survivor, established the press to preserve Polish cultural identity in exile and address pressing social issues, including aiding displaced persons and Holocaust survivors. The pamphlet was created to support the Polish Red Cross (Polski Czerwony Krzy?), specifically its Family Tracing Office, which worked to reunite families torn apart by the war. The preface notes that the poems included were written by staff of the Family Tracing Office and published to raise funds for its activities. Tadeusz Borowski is one of the most important Polish writers to emerge in the aftermath of World War II. Born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, he moved to Warsaw in 1932. During the war, he studied literature clandestinely and published his first poetry under German occupation. Arrested in 1943, he was deported to Auschwitz, an experience that profoundly shaped his writing. His post-war works, including This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Po?egnanie z Mari?, 1948), are renowned for their stark, unflinching portrayals of life in the concentration camps and the moral ambiguities of survival. After the war, Borowski briefly aligned with Poland's socialist regime but struggled with ideological pressures and personal disillusionment. He tragically died by suicide in 1951 at the age of 28. Extremely scarce despite a relatively large print run, likely due to its fragile pamphlet format. WorldCat locates only one copy of the 1945 first edition, held in the National Library of Poland, and four copies of the second edition (1946), with only one outside Poland (University of Wisconsin). Reference: Drewnowski, T. (editor): Postal indiscretions. The Correspondence of Tadeusz Borowski. [Evanston, Ill.]: Northwestern University Press, 2007. . In publisher's wrappers with the emblem of the Polish Red Cross on the front, stamped number on the rear.

First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Krystyn Olszewski, one of the authors. Numbered. In publisher's cloth, designed by Anatol Girs, cut from concentration camp uniform, a badge of the political prisoners mounted by sewing on the front panel. 212, (4) p. Extremely scarce inscribed copy of the book believed to be the first-ever published about the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, one of the few examples bound into cloth, cut from the actual material of concentration camp striped uniforms. The initiator and publisher of the book was Anatol Girs, the preeminent Polish graphic artist, and publisher, one of the survivors of Auschwitz and the Dachau-Allach concentration camp. After the liberation, Girs founded a publisher in MunichOficyna Warszawska na Obczy?nie, and the first book he issued was Tadeusz Borowski's first officially published bookImiona nurtu,in 1945. The present book is the third publication ofOficyna Warszawska,dedicated to the American Seventh Army, written by three young Polish former inmates of Auschwitz: Janusz Nel Siedlecki, Krystyn Olszewski, and Tadeusz Borowski.Byli?my w O?wi?cimiu (We Were in Auschwitz)is one of the earliest accurate descriptions of Auschwitz. Girs was a father figure and mentor of the authors and according to Borowski's wife's he "had an enormous moral and intellectual influence on Borowski". It was also Girs who designed the evocative cover of the book. Besides the regular edition which was bound into prison striped hard paper, with a printed, numbered prison badge of Janusz Nel Siedlecki (no. 6643), a few numbers of copies were bound into material cut from concentration camp uniforms, with a fabric prison badge sewn onto. Two variants of such binding were displayed in 2002, at Yale University exhibitionAnatol Girs: Book Designer, together with Girs' own copy, bound in leather cut from an SS officer's coat. Our copy is inscribed by Krystyn Olszewski to a certain Alexander "after the first attempt of friendship" (Olkowi po pierwszej próbie przyja?ni) in Warsaw on September 20, 1948. Olszewski (19212004) was a political prisoner in Auschwitz, Pawiak, Gross Rosen, Buchenwald, and Dachau. After the liberation, he returned to Poland, studied architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, and worked as a general designer of urban planning in Warsaw, Baghdad, and Singapore. Byli?my w O?wi?cimiu is generally considered as a book of memoirs of the three prisoners', which contains early versions of Borowski's stories published in Po?egnanie z Mari? (1948; Farewell to Maria), however Borowski's biographer, Tadeusz Drewnowski, claims in his 1962 study that the book is mainly a work of Borowski as for a large extent he co-authored and significantly edited the narratives of the texts of his two fellow-prisoners (Drewnowski, 1962). Tadeusz Borowski (19221951) was a Polish writer and journalist. He was involved in underground organizations during WWII in occupied Poland until 1943 when he was arrested and deported to Auschwitz. After the liberation, he stayed in Germany for some months and his first officially published books appeared in Munich. In June 1946, he returned to Poland, began to work for the Communist party as a journalist, he wrote and published the books of his stories about the concentration camps. In 1951, at the age of 28 as a disillusioned man, he committed suicide. [Ref.: Drewnowski, T.: Ucieczka z kamiennego ?wiata; o Tadeuszu Borowskim. Warszawa: Pa?stwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1962.; Drewnowski, T. (ed.): Postal Indiscretion. The Correspondence of Tadeusz Borowski. Northwestern University Press, 2007.] . Brown stains on the badge. Pages yellowed due to acidic paper. Otherwise in fine condition. In publisher's cloth, designed by Anatol Girs, cut from concentration camp uniform, a badge of the political prisoners mounted by sewing on the front panel First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Krystyn Olszewski, one of the authors. Numbered.