- Summary
- During the occupation, the author Maria Kann organized the Scouts movement and edited clandestine newspapers for the AK, the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) in Warsaw. Over time, Kann became active in Żegota (the Council for Aid to Jews), where her assignment was to find accommodation for Jewish children in private homes or in orphanages, under false identities. In June 1943, Kann published a tract entitled "Na oczach świata" ("While the World Looks On"), describing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the liquidation of the ghetto. The tract, which was also sent abroad, also contained a letter by Mordecai Anielewicz dated April 23, 1943, and an appeal to Poles by the ghetto insurgents. Abraham (Adolf) Berman, a leader of the Jewish underground in Warsaw, later wrote that the tract, which was published and distributed by the underground, had a great impact on many circles in occupied Poland, particularly on Catholics. In 1963, at the invitation of the many Jews who owed her their lives, Kann visited Israel, where she was given a hero's welcome. On October 22, 1963, Yad Vashem recognized Maria Kann as Righteous Among the Nations.
- Variant Title
- Before the eyes of the world.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Kann, Maria.
- Published
- Warsaw, Poland : Globe Publishing, [1943]
- Locale
- Poland
Warsaw (Poland)
Warsaw
- Edition
- Anonymous underground edition
- Other Authors/Editors
- Anielewicz, Mordecai, 1919-1943, contributor.
Poland. Polskie Siły Zbrojne. Armia Krajowa. Biuro Informacji i Propagandy.
- Notes
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On page title: "Glob" Wydawnictwo, Zamość-1932.
Index included.
(BZDK) Bibliografia zwartych i ulotnych druków konspiracyjnych wydanych na ziemiach polskich pod okupacją niemieckąChojnacki. Warszawa, 2005. page119, line 475.
Text in Polish.
