Dear fellow ha-Safran members we are excited to announce that at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. last Thursday, the Association of American Publishers awarded our book "The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery," by Captain Witold Pilecki, translated by Jarek Garlinski, the prestigious 2012 PROSE Award for Biography & Autobiography.
The PROSE Awards honor excellence in scholarly and professional publishing. We were competing against all the major university presses and large established publishers, and were the only independent to win an award so you can imagine that were pretty proud. For more info: http://www.polandww2.com/images/MEDIA_ROOM/NewsAndReviews/2013/proseaward-fi nal2013-2-11.pdf The complete list of winners is at: http://www.proseawards.com/current-winners.html Writing in The New Republic, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum says "Pileckis depiction of life in Auschwitz and his description of opposition in Auschwitz deserves to be read alongside the accounts of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel." The New York Times Sunday Book Review, in an extensive review by Yale Professor Timothy Snyder (Bloodlands), calls The Auschwitz Volunteer "a historical document of the greatest importance." Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland, says The Auschwitz Volunteer "is essential reading for anyone interested in the Holocaust." On January 27th, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum focused its 2013 International Holocaust Remembrance Day event on The Auschwitz Volunteer and its author Witold Pilecki. More info (including a video of the program) at: http://www.polandww2.com/article/2013-1-27ushmm Best, Terry Terry A. Tegnazian President Aquila Polonica Publishing Website: www.AquilaPolonica.com ; www.PolandWW2.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/PolandWW2 Twitter: http://twitter.com/polandww2 Watch "The Auschwitz Volunteer" book trailer on YouTube: http://bit.ly/AuschwitzVolunteerBookTrailer __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
