Published in a bilingual Polish and English version, XI Thou Shalt Not Be Indifferent, is a moving confession and an appeal to posterity—to all of us—by a Holocaust survivor, now ninety-seven years old. He is Marian Turski, a well-known journalist and activist for the commemoration of the Jewish community. It is a community that once constituted a significant percentage of Poland's population and had a significant impact on its history and culture.
Although Marian Turski was born in Druskienniki, for most of his life he was associated with Łódź and Warsaw. In Łódź, he spent a much shorter period—a period of his childhood and youth, in Warsaw, all the years of his professional and social activity. But it was his experiences in Łódż that influenced the way he perceived the world and his later activities. In the spring of 1940, when he was only fourteen years old, Turski and...
