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From the editor
I have tried for ages to persuade Ms. Zofia Lubinska-Rosset
to agree to be one of the protagonists of the exhibition at the Ma-
rek Edelman Dialogue Center, presenting the biographies of peo-
ple who have their trees of memory in the Survivors' Park. Ms.
Zofia always emphasized that she did not remember much, and
that everything she had to tell about that time was already included
in the publication "Children of the Holocaust Speak ..." published
in 1993. But the time has finally come. At the urging of her sons
and grandchildren, she agreed to tell her story. She called her mem-
ories of the times of contempt "Crumbs of Memory" because - as
she has emphasized - she only wants to tell what she experienced
and remembers, and these are just "scraps" of memories. While
working on the text, she gave an interview to Magda Lucyan and
fragments of her memories were published in the book "Children
of the Ghetto. Last Witnesses of the Holocaust”, together with the
memories of other people who experienced the cruelty of World
War II. I am glad that Ms. Zofia’s entire story has been published
as a separate book in the series of the Dialogue Center’s Library. It
is all the more important that - as it turns out – the real initiator of
this publication years ago was the Patron of the Dialogue Center -
Marek Edelman, a longtime neighbor of the Rosset family. "Marek
Edelman was my friend, mentor, teacher, guardian, someone ab-
solutely special to me," she said. - "He explained to me how im-
portant it was to speak about the war and the Holocaust." As it
turned out, this topic had to wait for the right moment. For the
time of reminiscing.
In "Crumbs of Memory" and the book "Children of the
Ghetto”, Zofia Lubinska-Rosset talks almost exclusively about her
childhood and early youth, her story ends shortly after the war.
Despite numerous requests, the Author could not be persuaded to
describe the post-war years more broadly: the school and student
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