Hanna Krall is a famous Polish writer, a master of reportage, whom Yevgeny Yevtushenko called “a great woman sculptor who sculpted living people from the smoke of gas chambers.” This edition contains twenty texts that tell about the fate of individual people - victim and executioner, savior and murderer - during the Second World War. “These are stories,” wrote Ryszard Kapuscinski, “addressed to future generations.”Hanna Krall is widely known at home and abroad; her work has been marked by many literary and journalistic awards, such as the underground “Solidarity” award (1985), the award of the Polish PEN Club (1990), the Grand Prize of the Cultural Foundation (1999), the Order of Ecce Homo (2001), the “Journalist Laurel” award of the union Polish Journalists (2009), Gold Medal “Gloria Artis” (2014), Prize named after. Juliana Tuwima (2014), Warsaw Literary Prize (2017).