Kazimierz Moczarski notable work Conversations with an Executioner
Kazimierz Damazy Moczarski (21 July 1907 – 27 September 1975) was a Polish writer and journalist, an officer of the Polish Home Army (noms de guerre: Borsuk, Grawer, Maurycy, and Rafał; active in anti-Nazi resistance). Kazimierz Moczarski is primarily known for his book Conversations with an Executioner, a series of interviews with a fellow inmate of the notorious UB secret police prison under Stalinism, the Nazi war criminal Jürgen Stroop, who was soon to be executed. Thrown in jail in 1945 and pardoned eleven years later during Polish October, Moczarski spent four years on death row (1952–56), and was tried three times as an enemy of the state while in prison.Conversations with an Executioner
Immediately after his release, Moczarski began writing down notes about Stroop. In 1971 he turned them to a full-length book, verifying what facts he could in publications, court transcripts and archive materials. In April 1972, the first installment of his Rozmowy z katem (Conversations with an Executioner) was published by the Odra monthly. The story continued to run in parts until February 1974, ending with an interview with Moczarski about its origin. Rozmowy z katem was published in book form in 1977 by the Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy with various details censored by the regime. Moczarski did not witness the publication of his book. He died on 27 September 1975 in Warsaw.The unabridged edition, with a foreword by Andrzej Szczypiorski and followed by Moczarski's biography and a glossary of German names and terms by Andrzej Krzysztof Kunert, was published after the collapse of Communism by the Polish Scientific Publishers PWN in 1992.The book was published in English, "edited by Mariana Fitzpatrick", in 1981 by Prentice-Hall. Prominent translations include German, published by Droste in 1978; French by Gallimard, in 1979; Hebrew by Loḥame ha-Geṭaʼot, in 1979–80; Czech by Mladá fronta in 1985 (the full version by Jota in 2007); and Ukrainian, by Černìvcì in 2009, among several others.  Moczarski's biography written by Kunert was published in 2006 with foreword by Władysław Bartoszewski.
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