Maria Duszka
It was the late 1960s. The book On the Border Between Life and Death: Letters and Secret Prison Notes of Krystyna Wituska was passed from house to house, from hand to hand. It was probably read, one after another, by nearly everyone in Małyń and Jeżew, villages in the Zadzim municipality of Poddębice County. I was no more than ten years old at the time, and although it was certainly not a book intended for children, I read it too. What I remember finding most puzzling was that this young woman, held in a German prison and sentenced to death, asked her parents to send her stockings and a silk dress. I imagined that in such circumstances one would not think about such small things.
The illustration on the homepage was generated by artificial intelligence based on a photograph of Krystyna Wituska from the family archive of Tomasz Steppa.
