485 Days at Majdanek

Overview

In 1945, with events fresh in his mind, Jerzy Kwiatkowski sat down to describe his sixteen-month internment at Majdanek concentration camp—everything he endured and witnessed, from the most mundane frustrations of prisoner life under the Nazi regime to the horrors of its darkest excesses. Translated into English for the first time, and illustrated with rare archival images, this valuable historical record and its insights are now available to a wider audience.

Author Biography

Jerzy Kwiatkowski (1894–1980) was a lawyer, banker, and industrialist who was arrested as a political prisoner by the Nazi regime in 1943 and sent to the Konzentrationslager (concentration camp) Lublin, in occupied Poland.

Norman M. Naimark is senior fellow of the Hoover Institution and of the Freeman Spogli Institute and McDonnell Professor of East European Studies at Stanford. His most recent book is Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Struggle for Sovereignty in Postwar Europe.