Tomasz Appel Tomasz Appel i(A50168 works by)
Born: Established: 1918
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Poland,
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Eastern Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Male
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1 Barykada (fragmenty) i "Noc. Okręt rytmicznie kołysze", Tomasz Appel , 1997 single work poetry
— Appears in: Zielona zima : Antologia poezji i prozy polskiej w Australii 1997; (p. 49-50)

The poem's speaker is on board an Allied warship on the English Channel, pitted against German warships. He is haunted by the sight of the city of Warsaw burning during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, and images of a living 'barricade' of Polish civilians being crushed by German tanks.
1 O Januszu Korczaku (fragmenty) i "Pójdźcie o dziatki, pójdźcie wszystkie razem", Tomasz Appel , 1997 single work poetry
— Appears in: Zielona zima : Antologia poezji i prozy polskiej w Australii 1997; (p. 48)

The poem evokes the desperate attempt of Polish Jewish teacher and doctor Janusz Korczak to give heart to the Jewish children in his care, who were being driven from Korczak's orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka concentration camp, in 1942.
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