Holy Week
Subtitle: a novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
By: Jerzy Andrzejewski ; introduction and commentary by Oscar E. Swan ; foreword by Jan Gross.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Athens, OH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Description: As armed battle rages in the Warsaw ghetto during the week preceding Easter of 1943, Jan Malecki, a Polish architect and cold, indecisive leftist, reluctantly takes in his Jewish old flame, Irena Lilien. Irena was a wealthy, bewitching beauty, but is now an embittered homeless fugitive with forged Aryan papers. Jan's pious and pregnant wife, Anna, is kind if condescending to Irena, and Jan's brother identifies with the Jewish insurgents. But Irena is informed on by the neighbor's acidly anti-Semitic wife.