But I Survived

Tadeusz Sobolewicz was born in Poznañ in 1923 He was a secondary-school pupil when the second world war broke out and, together with his mother and younger brother, he was forced to flee the city. Soon, like his father (a Polish army - officer), he became an active member of the Polish underground resistance movement. The Gestapo arrested and interrogated him in Czçstochowa in the early autumn of 1941. He spent almost the entire rest of the war in Auschwitz concentration camp and then in other lesser-known sites of Nazi-inspired hell: Buchenwald, Leipzig, Mülsen, Flossenbürg and Regensburg.

When Mr Sobolewicz's book was first published, it was awarded the first prize at the Polish Auschwitz Recollections Competition, organized by the State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1985. Six publications on, and with a second German publication pending, the book continues to arouse interest and receive excellent reviews. This is its first publication in English.