Jewish Combat Organization
Commercial success came with the publication of the 1977 "Zdążyć przed Panem Bogiem" (engl. title: "Shielding the Flame"). The book is based on an interview with a Polish Jewish cardiologist and social activist, Marek Edelman, who was one of the founders of Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (Jewish Combat Organization) and who took over its leadership after the head-commander Mordechai Anielewicz had perished. "'Shielding the Flame" can be seen as a model for most of Krall's works. Krall describes the relations between Jews, Poles and Germans during the Holocaust and the years thereafter.