Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, two academic disciplines have come to fore: peace and conflict studies and East European studies...
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In 1946, a 12-year-old Jewish girl named Krystyna arrived in New York City from Poland. Her survival had been improbable. In the Warsaw Ghetto her mother had dressed her up in high heels and a kerchief so that they would be taken for forced labour together. Krystyna had known that deportation meant death. She imagined her friends as having fallen into a black hole.
Seventy years later, Krystyna remembered the day that she and her mother escaped from the ghetto, and her stepfather’s aunt on the Aryan side who turned them away. She remembered the cruelty at the orphanage where she stayed for a time, and the bombing of an apartment building as she hid in its basement during the Warsaw Uprising.