War Memories. September 22, 1939 - April 5, 1945

This book, written in 1945, was rejected by European publishers for decades - either as too anti-russian or as too anti-German. Today, the recollections of the famous Polish activist, scientist, and Lviv woman Karolina Lanckorońska (1898–2002) about the events of World War II sound especially sharp and in harmony with the military experience of Ukrainians in the 21st century.

Karolina Lanckorońska described what she saw with her own eyes and what she had to be a part of: the arrival of the first Soviets in Lviv in 1939, interrogations by the NKVD, escape to Kraków occupied by the Germans, activities in the Polish resistance movement, stay in Stanislaviv prison and confrontation with the chief of the Stanislaviv Gestapo by Kruger, a death sentence, imprisonment in Lviv and Berlin prisons, more than two terrible years in Ravensbrück.

But above all, these memories are about humanity in inhuman circumstances, about inner strength and dignity, and about the fact that war is not only about death but also about a mad love for life.