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Fairy tales from Auschwitz - new issue of Auschwitz Memorial magazine Oś
The main focus of this edition of Oś is a book of fairy tales. The book is extraordinary not for its content, but due to the fact that the stories of the “Adventures of the Black Chick,” “The Fairy Tale about the Hare, Fox, and Rooster,” “The Giant-Egoist,” and the “Wedding in Osy Wielkie” were created behind the barbed wire of Auschwitz.
Risking their lives, fathers—prisoners of the camp—created them for their children. The Museum has issued a reprint of all the fairy tales. Jadwiga Kulasza writes about their history in Oś—while Andrzej Czulda, one of those the stories were created for and director of a film dedicated to the fairy tales, speaks about his personal experience with these tales.
You can also find an article Dr. Adam Cyra has written about the complicated fate of children liberated from Auschwitz. One of those individuals was a girl who was liberated 27 January 1945, living today in Moldova and in January this year she came to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the liberation.
In addition, this edition of Oś contains an interview with theologist Norbert Reck, who was a guest during the New Year’s retreat at the Center for Dialogue and Prayer. On the pages of the Center you can also find An Appeal to European Youth, created for the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. We also continue the cycle of articles on the Jewish Center’s project “What do we need tolerence for?”.
Publication of the English edition of Oś is possible thanks to the support of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
