Michelangelo in Ravensbrück

Michelangelo in Ravensbrück: One Woman's War against the Nazis is a memoir by Karolina Lanckorońska, a World War II resistance fighter and postwar historian who survived the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women and after liberation went on to record the history of this lesser known side of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. Initially, Lanckorońska did not want her war memoir published in her lifetime. However, after much persuasion she consented to publication in Poland, by ZNAK Publishing of Kraków in 2001, a year before her death. The book, whose British version is titled Those Who Trespass against Us: One Woman's War against the Nazis, sold over 50,000 copies in the Polish original and is now selling well in English. The U.S. edition was published in hardback in Spring 2007 by Da Capo Press (Perseus Publishing Group) under the new title, Michelangelo in Ravensbrück.^[1][2][3]

Michelangelo in Ravensbrück

Cover of memoir, 2008 print
Author	Karolina Lanckorońska
Language	English
Subject	Invasion of Poland
Genre	History
Publisher	Da Capo Press
Publication date	2008
Publication place	United States
Media type	Paperback
Pages	372
ISBN	0306816113

Narrative

Despite the implications of the book title, the actual narrative is in most part devoted to activities which preceded the author's imprisonment at the camp. Lanckorońska describes the German invasion of Poland and the events surrounding the Soviet invasion of Poland witnessed and experienced first hand while in her home city of Lwów.^[4]

References

1. Karolina Lanckorońska, Wspomnienia wojenne (War Memoir), Kraków, Znak Publishing, 2001, ISBN 83-240-0077-1.
2. Karolina Lanckorońska, Those Who Trespass against Us: One Woman's War against the Nazis, Pimlico, 2006, 366 pp., ISBN 1-84413-417-2.
3. Karolina Lanckorońska, Michelangelo in Ravensbrück: One Woman's War against the Nazis, translated from the Polish by Noel Clark, Merloyd Lawrence Books / Da Capo, 2008 [2007], 341 pp., $26. ISBN 0306816113.
4. Goodreads (2015), Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's War Against the Nazis by Karolina Lanckoronska, translated by Noel Clark, with Preface by Eva Hoffman. Goodreads Book Reviews.