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From Painted Bird to Ugly Bird: What is the truth behind Kosiński’s acclaimed autobiography?

Seen as an iconic autobiographical depiction of a young boy’s tragic war experience, The Painted Bird was quickly added to the canon of Holocaust literature and propelled Kosiński to stardom. Zbigniew Staszyszyn/PAP

A brilliant author, celebrity and tragic victim, or a fraud, careerist and outright liar? Even today, Jerzy Kosiński provokes controversy. On the 86th anniversary of his birth, TFN speaks to Joanna Siedlecka, the author of Kosiński’s biography “Ugly Black Bird”.

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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