Gustawa_Jarecka

Gustawa Jarecka

Gustawa Jarecka

Polish writer

Gustawa Jarecka (23 December 1908 – 22/23 January 1943[1]) was a Polish novelist. She was a daughter of Moszek Jarecki and Natalia Jarecka.[2]

Quick Facts Born, Died ...

She attended a school in Łódź.[3] From 1925 to 1931 she studied Polonistics at the University of Warsaw and received her diploma. In 1932 her first novel, Inni ludzie, was published. Her novellas were published in Głos Poranny, Dziennik Ludowy, Górnik, Myśl Socjalistyczna and Nowa Kwadrydza. Themes of unemployment and its effects were often present in her works.[4] She worked in school as a Polish language teacher in Wąbrzeźno.[3]

After the war started (1939) she was living in Warsaw Ghetto, where, from 1940, she worked for the Judenrat as a telephonist and typist in the Jewish District.[5][6] The people she worked with included the writer Marcel Reich-Ranicki who wrote about Jarecka in his 1999 book.[7] She was a member of underground organization Oneg Shabbat, and was asked to write about what she was seeing by Emanuel Ringelblum.[8] On account of her children she refused to come to the, so called, aryan part of the ghetto.[3] She is thought to have died with her children on the train to the Treblinka extermination camp.[9]

She is attributed with writing the report describing the Grossaktion Warsaw titled Ostatnim etapem przesiedlenia jest śmierć (The last stage of resettlement is death).[10]

Novels

  • Inni ludzie (Other people, 1931)
  • Stare grzechy (Old sins, 1934)[11]
  • Przed jutrem (Before tomorrow, 1936)[11]
  • Ludzie i sztandary (People and banners) Reviewed[12]
    • vol. 1 Ojcowie (Fathers, 1938)[11]
    • vol. 2 Zwycięskie pokolenie (The victorious generation, 1939)[11]

References

  1. [1]
    Marta Janczewska, ed. (2018), Żadna blaga, żadne kłamsto : wspomnienia z Warszawskiego getta., Warszawa, p. 393, ISBN 9788363444556{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. [2]
    Majchrowska, Anna (2019-08-07). "A stone thrown under the wheel of history. Gustawa Jarecka". Jewish Historical Institute. Translated by Drenda, Olga. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
  3. [3]
    Sańczuk, Anna (2021-04-19). "Warszawa nie wierzyła, że to się wydarzy. Ona pisała: "Ostatnim etapem przesiedlenia jest śmierć". Dokument urywa się w pół zdania" (in Polish). Gazeta Wyborcza. Wysokie Obcasy. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  4. [4]
    Knysz-Rudzka 1991, p. 391.
  5. [5]
    Kassow, Samuel D.; Roskies, David G. (2020-11-24). The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 9: Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939–1973. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-18853-0.
  6. [6]
    Kassow, Samuel D. (2009). Who will write our history? : rediscovering a hidden archive from the Warsaw Ghetto. Internet Archive. New York : Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-307-45586-4.
  7. [7]
    Reich-Ranicki, Marcel (2020-09-08). The Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-20605-9.
  8. [8]
    Roskies, David G. (2019-04-23). Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto: Writing Our History. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-24535-6.
  9. [9]
    Majchrowska, Anna (2019-01-16). "Styczniowa akcja likwidacyjna w getcie warszawskim". Żydowski Instytut Historyczny (in Polish).
  10. [10]
    "Duchowy opór jednostki. Wywiad z autorami książki "Archiwum ważniejsze niż życie"". Żydowski Instytut Historyczny (in Polish). 2020-10-04.
  11. [11]
    Bibliografia polska, 1901-1939. T. 13: Jad – Jok. 2011. p. 232.
  12. [12]
    Coleman, Arthur P. (1939). "Review of Ludzie i sztandary (People and Standards), Gustawa Jarecka". Books Abroad. 13 (4): 455. doi:10.2307/40081327. ISSN 0006-7431. JSTOR 40081327.

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