Books published by Aquila Polonica Publishing

"The definitive study of the topic," Prof. Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Incredible story of the prisoner underground at Auschwitz, meticulously researched and highly readable. More than 200 photos and maps. Winner of the SILVER AWARD for HISTORY at the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Awards.

Follows Kulski, 10-year-old Boy Scout when WWII begins, as he is recruited into clandestine Polish Underground Army by his Scoutmaster, undertakes secret mission into Warsaw Ghetto, is captured by the Gestapo, sentenced to Auschwitz, rescued, fights in the Warsaw Uprising and ends as a 16-year-old German POW.

A novel drawn from a little known chapter of World War II history - the brutal Soviet deportations of 1.5 million Polish civilians to forced labor camps in Siberia shortly after the Soviets occupied eastern Poland at the beginning of the war. It explores the impacts of this shattering experience on a family from four points of view.

Written by a young working mother, this title covers rare eyewitness account of early, chaotic days of WWII - Nazi invasion of Poland, Siege of Warsaw and first months of Occupation.