Title: Recovered land
First published: 1995
Description: Alicia Nitecki was born in Warsaw to a Catholic family that was active in the resistance movement. Following the Nazi conquest of Poland, she and her relatives were dispersed to German prisoner-of-war, labor, and concentration camps.

In this book, she revisits the places that have formed her and confronts a past that has haunted her: Warsaw during the 1944 uprising, the Black Forest village where she and the women in her family were taken as slaves in the last months of the war, and Buchenwald and Flossenburg, the concentration camps where her grandfather was imprisoned.

Nitecki's private odyssey coincided with the collapse of communism in Poland and the reunification of Germany. These essays mark her movement from fear and rage toward fuller knowledge and reconciliation.
Subjects: American Personal narratives, Biography, Children, Personal narratives, American, Poland, Polish Americans, World War, 1939-1945, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, american, World war, 1939-1945, poland, Children, biography
Places: Poland
People: Alicia Nitecki (1942-)
LC classification: D811.5 .N56 1995