Janina Kostkiewicz (Ed.), Crime without Punishment… The Extermination and Suffering of Polish Children during the German Occupation 1939–1945, Jagiellonian University Press, Kraków 2020, pp. 272

The text is a review of a collective work devoted, as the title indicates, to the extermination and suffering of Polish children during World War II. The content of the chapters focuses on the fate of Polish children in the General Government and East Prussia of the Third Reich as well as in the territory of Germany after 1945. The individual chapters contain documented crimes against Polish children not only in concentration camps but also in places of residence (Łódź, Zamojszczyzna, CONFIDENTIAL: FOR PEER REVIEW ONLY Białystok, and others). The book includes 12 chapters presenting the effects of the policy of the occupant towards the youngest generation in the period indicated by the caesura, and 2 chapters devoted to the fate of Polish children, who the end of the war found in Germany. The publication of this monograph in English enables the dissemination of knowledge about the fate of Polish children during World War II among a wide range of English-speaking readers. It also fosters reflection on the long-term consequences of wars and the paradox of the 20th century as the “Centenary of the Child” that was announced by Ellen Key

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• Kołakowski A. (2020), A Crime without Punishment: The Extermination of Polish Children during the Period of German Occupation from 1939 to 1945. In: K J. ostkiewicz (Ed.), Crime without punishment… The Extermination and Suffering of Polish Children during the German Occupation 1939–1945. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, pp. 31-43
• Kostkiewicz, J. (Ed.). (2020). Crime without punishment… The Extermination and Suffering of Polish Children during the German Occupation 1939–1945. Kraków: Jagiellonian Uni­versity Press.