Name: "Kiedy jeste?cie, mniej boli..." (2003) Price: 28.00 PLN

Romuel Karas: reporter, vice president of the Polish Literary Association, Warsaw: - Teresa Kaczorowska is to one of the most interesting new-generation Polish reporters. Her newest book "Kiedy jestescie, mniej boli" ( When You Are Here, it Hurts Less�) vindicates the author's aspirations. It is an ambitious project of documenting the fate of a generation on whose shoulders there weighs heavily their fathers' drama, now revealed after years of lies, silence, and efforts to wash away responsibility. Kaczorowska searches in her stories for the truth in history and in people's misfortune. She has a gift for listening intently to people's voices, despite the effort it requires - equally reaching as well as understanding her heroes, their tangled past and the outpouring of their feelings. She questions them skillfully in an effort to paint accurately their inner selves and the travails of their lives. As a result, her report is vibrantly alive. Wlodzimierz Dusiewicz, President of the Katyn Families Federation in Warsaw: - This is a totally different book about Katyn. Teresa Kaczorowska chose eighteen different heroes from six different countries. She searched throughout Poland, the always faithful Lvov, the beloved Vilnius, - Canada, United States, Israel, and ending her journey in Ukraine in the towns of Kharkov and Starobelsk. She described in a most moving way how the Katyn massacre and the war uprooted families from their nests, sentenced them to a nomadic homelessness throughout the world, and deprived of husbands, fathers, and sons. The author informs us that traces of this most hideous massacre remain to this day on all the continents, that to this day the memory and the emptiness suffered by the loss of the victims persists�.and that, even though with each passing year we get further removed from the tragedy of this crime, time has not healed the wounds. This was not a natural death�but a cry for justice. anappeal to conscience awaiting an explanation and punishment of the guilty. I am greatly pleased, that for the first time a person with a pen managed to reach the crying child of a Katyn victim and through its pain and distress to cry out to the world with complete Truth. Jagna Wright, journalist from London, film writer and producer of "A Forgotten Odyssey": - "When You Are Here, It Hurts Less" is a book mostly about the human need to know the truth. The Katyn massacre was not only a national tragedy that robbed the Polish nation of its most talented people, but also a personal tragedy that people often forget, a personal tragedy of thousands of mothers, wives, and mostly children of the murdered officers. Because of an early loss of their fathers, the children were unable to console themselves in spite of future personal successes. It is evident from Teresa Kaczorowska's report that their dark secret threw a shadow on almost every day of their lives. Yet, after six decades, relating their narratives from the heart, even the most brutal details, allowed them to free themselves from their torment.