Summary
Jerzy Kosinski: The Colored Bird
During World War II, they lived in constant danger. They were forced to look for a new hiding place almost every day, their existence was reduced to fear, running away and starvation... My mother later told me that even when they were physically safe, they were constantly tormented by the doubt that their decision to send me out of the country might have been wrong, that I might be safer with them. There are no words, she said, that could describe their painful anxiety as they watched small children herded like cattle into trains on their way to the furnaces or into the horrible special camps that proliferated across the country.
So it was for them and people like them that I wanted to write a novel that would depict, and perhaps dispel, the horrors that they considered so unspeakable.
(from the preface author)
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