January book of the month

Our book of the month for January is Warsaw 1944 by Alexandra Richies

27th January is Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day that marks the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp at the end of World War II.

This month, we have chosen ‘Warsaw 1944’ by Alexandra Richies as our book of the month. Following the uprising in 1944, around 13,000 Warsaw residents were deported to the concentration camp, many of whom will have died before even making it to the Auschwitz.

This book “tells the story of this brave, and errant, calculation. For more than sixty days, the Polish fighters took over large parts of the city and held off the SS’s most brutal forces. But in the end, their efforts were doomed. Scorned by Stalin and unable to win significant support from the Western Allies, the Polish Home Army was left to face the full fury of Hitler, Himmler, and the SS. The crackdown that followed was among the most brutal episodes of history’s most brutal war, and the celebrated historian Alexandra Richie depicts this tragedy in riveting detail. Using a rich trove of primary sources, Richie relates the terrible experiences of individuals who fought in the uprising and perished in it. Her clear-eyed narrative reveals the fraught choices and complex legacy of some of World War II’s most unsung heroes.”

https://www.auschwitz.org/…/the-warsaw-uprising-and…