Abstract
The article consists of an interview with Agata Tuszyńska, the author of a book regarded in Poland as both important and controversial. Vera Gran: The Accused presents the testimony of the aged, reclusive eponymous Polish singer who spent part of World War II in the Warsaw Ghetto and thereafter lived in the shadow of accusations that she had collaborated with the Nazi occupation. Grant not only disputed these charges but leveled similar if unsubstantiated allegations against her sometime accompanist, Władysław Szpilman, celebrated as the hero of the memoir and film The Pianist. Tuszyńska describes her book as a study in human memory and acknowledges that memory could be necessarily subjective and contradictory but asserts that only by collecting the memories of many witnesses can the truth of the war and Holocaust be grasped.
