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Edelman, Marek. The Ghetto Fights: Warsaw, 1941–43. London: Bookmarks Publications, 1990.
Engelking, Barbara, and Leociak, Jacek. The Warsaw Ghetto: a Guide to the Perished City. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009.
Goldstein, Bernard. Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto. Oakland: AK Press, 2005.
Kostanski, Janek. Janek: a Gentile in the Warsaw Ghetto. Janek Kostanski, Melbourne, 1998.
Landau, David. Caged: a Story of Jewish Resistance. Macmillan, 2000.
Landau, Ludwik. A Chronicle of the Years of War and Occupation. Warsaw, 1962.
Paulsson, Gunnar S. Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940–1945. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
Ziemian, Joseph. The Cigarette Sellers of Three Crosses Square. Lerner Publishing Group, 1975.
DOCUMENTARIES AND FILMS:
Border Street (Ulica Graniczna), Aleksander Ford, Polart, DVD/VHS, 1950.
A Generation, Andrzej Wajda, 1955.
Uprising, Jon Avnet (director), Warner Home Video, VHS, 2001.
The Pianist, Roman Polanski (producer and director), Universal Studios, DVD/VHS, 2002.
Three War Films: A Generation, Kanal, and Ashes & Diamonds, Andrzej Wajda, Criterion, DVD/VHS, 1961 edition.
MUSEUMS:
Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw (as of May 2009 under construction on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto). See: http://www.jewishmuseum.org.pl/
Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne. See: http://www.jhc.org.au/ 13-15 Selwyn Street, Elsternwick, VIC 3185
Sydney Jewish Museum. See: http://www.sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au/
148 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010 (corner of Burton St and Darlinghurst Rd)
WARSAW UPRISING OF 1944
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WEBSITES:
Website dedicated to the Warsaw Uprising. See: http://www.warsawuprising.com/ State University of New York at Buffalo: Warsaw Uprising 1944. Portal.
See: http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/web/history/WWII/powstanie/link.shtml
BOOKS:
Borodziej, Wlodzimierz. The Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Translated by Barbara Harshav. University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.
Borowiec, Andrew. Destroy Warsaw! Hitler’s punishment, Stalin’s revenge. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2001.
Ciechanowski, Jan M. The Warsaw Rising of 1944. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Davies, Norman. Rising ’44. The Battle for Warsaw (1st U.S. ed.) New York: Viking, 2004.
Karski, Jan. Story of a Secret State. Safety Harbor, FL: Simon Publications, 2001.
Walker, Jonathan. Poland Alone: Britain, SOE and the Collapse of Polish Resistance, 1944. The History Press, 2008.
Woody, Thomas E. & Jankowski, Stanislaw (1994). Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust. John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
DOCUMENTARIES AND FILMS:
Battle for Warsaw. The Nazi Annihilation of Poland’s Historic Capital. Peter Batty documentary. Beckmann Visual Publishing, 2004, DVD.
Battle for Warsaw. Wanda Koscia (director and producer). BBC and The Discovery Channel, 2005, DVD.
Betrayal: The Battle for Warsaw. Andrew Rothstein (producer). The History Channel documentary, 2005, DVD.
MUSEUMS:
Warsaw Uprising Museum, Warsaw, Poland. See: http://www.1944.pl/ 79 Grzybowska St, 00-844 Warsaw (enter from Przyokopowa St)
OTHER READING:
Olson, Lynne, and Gould, Stanley. A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: forgotten heroes of World War II. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Russell, R. Lynette. Off the Record: the Life and Times of Muriel Knox Doherty 1896–1988: An autobiography. New South Wales College of Nursing, Glebe, 1996.
About the Author
Diane Armstrong was born in Poland and arrived in Australia with her parents on the SS Derna in 1948. After gaining a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Sydney, she became a freelance journalist. Over 3000 of her articles have been published in Australia and around the world, winning national and international awards, including the Pluma de Plata from the Mexican government and the George Munster Award for Independent Journalism in Australia.
In 1998, Diane’s internationally acclaimed memoir, Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations, was published and was shortlisted for the National Biography Award and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. Her second bestselling book, The Voyage of Their Life: the Story of the SS Derna and its Passengers, was published in 2001 and was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award. It was followed in 2005 by her first novel, Winter Journey, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, South East Asia and South Pacific region. Winter Journey has been translated into Polish and is currently translated into Hebrew.
Nocturne is her second novel.
Diane lives in Sydney with her husband, Michael. They have a daughter and son, and three grand-daughters.
Other Books by Diane Armstrong
Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations
The Voyage of Their Life: The Story of the SS Derna and its Passengers
Winter Journey
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