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Collection of poems on the Holocaust and the book Last Train To Auschwitz are unique literary works.

My uncle Czesław Ostańkowicz survived the most severe concentration camps during World War II. After the war, as a writer, he dealt with this subject. His books were about life in camps.

Czarna z komanda Bayer (1958), Dziwny normalny świat (1962), Porażeni nie chcą umierać (1973) a także zbiór reportaży Sprawy zwykłych ludzi (1959); ponadto wspomnienia prozą Ziemia parująca cyklonem (1967), Straszna góra Ettersberg (1968) oraz wiersze Strofy pawiackie (1980).

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I will look him up! One of the good ones, it is and was so important to keep telling this story, keep the memory there. Czeslaw ... always loved that name. Besides Tadeusz Borowski's stories (about the Holocaust), I've read so much of the works of Czeslaw Milosz. As fine a writer as has ever lived.

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