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Beautiful and touching story of Mrs. Seidenmann, who by a money driven fellow traitor Jew gets straight in the arms of Nazi, later escapes death thanks to help organized by friends and neighbors, only to face the harsh reality of '68 Poland years later. Stripped of the mother land, memories and old friends, her soul forever lost.
Szczypiorski delivers a real, accurate diversity of Polish society through stories of various individuals, their life paths and fates. Polish prewar and after war society, the suffering, confusion of war, and tragedy for many even after the war ends.


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The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman A Novel Andrze Szczypiorski Andrzej Szczypiorski Books Reviews

The book deals with the years of the German occupation of Poland. It is about the fate of a handful of people who either qualify as good people in these years, or as bad people, and above all the author seems to be interested in people who are neither good nor bad, who seem bad and turn out good, or who are indifferent and turn out to be heroes.
The fate of Mrs Seidenmann is not at the centre. It is true, it involves the fates of different other people insofar as they try to betray or save her. But one might equally say that the lives of the other people around her are as important as hers or even more important. For Mrs S. is in herself not very important, she is just a dignified Jewish widow who looks Aryan, and thus gets out of the hands of the Gestapo. There is her neighbour Pawel, a German socialist Mueller, who finally goes to the SS-officer in charge, Stuckler, to liberate Mrs S.. Later on, Mrs S. lives in Paris, Pawel as an older man visits her and talks about his love for her. Otherwise Mrs. S. is not too relevant, but she is in a way the catalyst of the story.
Pawel in his disillusioned dedication to the matter of the Poles demands more interest. Then there is his Jewish friend, Henio Fichtelbaum, who escapes from the ghetto for about one year, then we see him exhausted spending a night in a public toilet, out of which he is unexpectedly liberated by a young prostitute, who feeds him and makes love to him, which makes him strong enough to go back into the ghetto to expect inevitable death. Another outstanding figure is Judge Romnicki, a wise and good man, who saves the life of little Joasia Fichtelbaum, who later goes to Israel and is happy to give birth to a girl, not a boy. The judge survives the war and dies peacefully. Then there is the tailor Kujawski, an inherently good and decent man, who made a lot of money while working for a Jewish tailor before the war. He then made the trousers for the German officers and bought works of art, paying a decent price for them and thus enabling a lot of people to survive. Then there are so-called bad people, like the bandit Wiktor Suchowiak, who nevertheless becomes the instrumet of good in that he delivers little Joasia safely to Pawel's mother and defends her against the informer Beautiful Lolo, whom he meets after the war in a leading position, in which he once again humiliates him. Then there is a deeply symbolic scene in which the mathematician Prof. Winiar is shot at random outside the ghetto wall with a merry-go-round running.
Szczypiorski gives an impression of the times through the minds of several contemporaries. It is unpathetic, yet one feels how much he is shaken by the events. I find Sz.'s sense of objectivity and his fairness remarkable. He has a clear moral sense, which is very simple - with regard to the wise judge he sums up "For what is man's greatest and least easily attainable wisdom if not the ability to call good that which is good and evil that which is evil" (94). Sz. uses to give us a glimpse of the future of one person so that we begin to judge people"s behaviour like him - from afar. A remarkable and human book!
I was expecting so much more from this book. I found it hard to follow at times and the story line jumped around too much. I don't know if the translation from Polish to English was part of the problem or not. The story line itself could have been presented in a much easier way to follow.
An amazing book - a true work of art - at once both poetic and realistic. Highly recommend it.
nice read into what was going on during the Hitler era
A challenging literary read, with significant historical themes.
This is my all time favorite book. Not a good read for light entertainment. Definitely made me think. The names are hard to read, so I advise writing the character's names with a quick note as to who is who, and use the note as your bookmark. Seriously, though, best book I have ever read.
It is a powerful book, with some chapters that are absolutely lovely. I would like to read more of his work.
Beautiful and touching story of Mrs. Seidenmann, who by a money driven fellow traitor Jew gets straight in the arms of Nazi, later escapes death thanks to help organized by friends and neighbors, only to face the harsh reality of '68 Poland years later. Stripped of the mother land, memories and old friends, her soul forever lost.
Szczypiorski delivers a real, accurate diversity of Polish society through stories of various individuals, their life paths and fates. Polish prewar and after war society, the suffering, confusion of war, and tragedy for many even after the war ends.