Describes the camp fate of August Kowalczyk, from the moment he was imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp until his dramatic escape from the Penal Company during one of the best known mutinies in the history of the camp. Learn More

An English translation of the second and third part of former Auschwitz prisoner August Kowalczyk’s autobiographical novel, published several years ago in Polish as "A Barbed Wire Refrain". Learn More

This French translation of the second part of Kowalczyk‘s "Refrain of the Barbed Wire" recounts the author‘s fate in camp, from his imprisonment in Auschwitz concentration camp through his escape from the penal company. Learn More

The third part is a return through memory to the events of all those years ago, with the present and the wartime past intertwined... Learn More

The German version of memoirs written by August Kowalczyk, former prisoner of Auschwitz. Learn More

An anthology of poetry written in the camp and after the war by prisoners and non-prisoners alike. Learn More

An anthology of poetry written in the camp and after the war by prisoners and non-prisoners alike. Learn More

In December 2008 the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim published a German version of stories, “Eine Kindheit hinterm Stacheldraht” (Childhood in Striped Uniforms) by Bogdan Bartnikowski. Learn More

Born in Warsaw, Halina Birenbaum has lived in Israel since 1947. She is a writer, poet, and translator. She was ten years old when the war began. She lived through the Warsaw ghetto and the camps at Majdanek, Birkenau, Ravensbrück, and Neustadt-Glewe. Learn More