here briefly discuss the book "My Little Poland" written by Mrs. Krystyna Ciapciak R. and recently published in Lima. This book is a living testimony of the author, who recounts his memories, from his earliest years, to come to Peru to fourteen years of age. The interesting thing is that these memories are also historical evidence, for having lived through World War II firsthand during this stage of his life.
In the book the author tells of his childhood where family memories interspersed with what was happening around, bombs, raids that netted the young Poles on the streets, etc. It tells of the Warsaw Uprising, which was to fight one of his brothers, whom she never saw. Of how after the Uprising, as part of the surviving population of Warsaw, was taken together with his mother to meet forced labor in Germany. And how after the war, for a few years, was going from a refugee camp to another, always with his mother. These refugee camps using the facilities that were previously labor camps and concentration.
The author then speaks of so-called "Meeting of forgiveness and brotherhood in 2003 organized by the authorities of the city of Bietigheim - Bissingen, in which the inhabitants thereof who met there were prisoners during the war. Invited attended, accompanied by her daughter, with both costs paid. Shock tells of being reunited with his past, returning to where he had been imprisoned 59 years earlier. How to travel then to Poland, where a friend lent him a book entitled "Forgiveness does not mean forgetting."
To conclude we would say that if it is true that in Polish there is much material on the subject of the Second World War: books, movies and testimonies of people who lived through the war, published, recorded on CD or in interviews television, they do not leave the circle polacoparlante. This is a broad area, because Poland has more than forty million people, with an estimated eighteen million descendants of Poles outside Poland, but is not universal. So we think it is important to the publication of such testimony in other languages, in this case the Castilian. Yet those who are not tied directly to Polish culture, and often the same descendants of Poles, have a mistaken view of the war. A vision in which it is reduced to Nazis, whose nationality is not always clear, chasing Jews. No one denies that this was a crucial part of the war, but was not alone. I think that is due largely to the fact that Hollywood movies have just that part of the war.
What I have presented here is just a small review of a book of over three hundred pages, so I recommend reading it.
D. Isabel Sabogal
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