This Was Not America

<p></p><p>From fleeing the Warsaw Ghetto and living underground to fighting for social justice in 1960s' Seattle and helping smash the communist system in 1980s' Poland this is a narrative that erupts into critical moments in Jewish Polish and American history. It is also a story of the hidden anguish that accompanies and courses through that history of the living haunted by the dead. The story is told through a conversation often contentious between Michael Steinlauf historian of Polish-Jewish culture and child of Holocaust survivors and the anthropologist and artist Elżbieta Janicka. It is illustrated with scores of photographs and documents.</p><p></p>