Premiera: "W tym domu już nie straszy. Reportaże o Żydach, Polakach i fatum" Pawła Piotra Reszki

The Faktyczny Cultural Center and Agora Publishing House invite you to the launch of Paweł Piotr Reszka's book, "This House Is No Longer Haunted. Reports on Jews, Poles, and Fate." Krzesnica Jara, Paris, Marianka, Brussels, Częstochowa, Vancouver, Lgota Mała, New York, Stręgoborzyce, Krakow, and Antwerp. Descendants of Jews who sought shelter with Poles for money during World War II. In a house, in a barn, in a hole in the ground, behind an outhouse. And descendants of Poles responsible for crimes that were passed over in silence. Are the farmers who encouraged the family of a Lublin tailor to hide with them, then—with a pitchfork and an axe—killed the father and two sons under a curse? And is there also a curse on those who bought their house, unaware of the crime that had taken place there? Will the intervention of a parish priest who "has a master's degree in exorcism and a terribly powerful field" help? Paweł Piotr Reszka is gifted with absolute pitch. He picks out what people are really saying in the torrent of masked words. And once he listens carefully to the characters and presents their voices, he confronts us with a different version of the same story, a version supported by thousands of pages of documents. "This House Is No Longer Haunted" is another book combining the sensitivity of a reporter with the skills of a historian. A must-read! Anna Bikont This is a book about the genetics of guilt. Can evil be inherited? What about the ghosts of the past that haunt our thoughts, dreams, and homes? Can they materialize enough to take our lives years later? This book is full of questions. Even the wisest rabbis can't or won't answer them. Reszka doesn't try either. Is he too clever a reporter? A writer? I don't know. But he writes clearly, simply, and nobly. Andrzej Stasiuk About the author: Paweł Piotr Reszka Reporter, author of the books: The Devil and the Chocolate Bar (Agora Publishing House, 2015), for which he won the Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage, and Płuczki: Poszukiwacze żydowskiego gold (Agora Publishing House, 2019), which was a finalist for the 2020 Nike Literary Award, the 2020 Gdynia Literary Award, and the 2020 Angelus Central European Literary Award. He is also the author of the collection of reportage, White Petals, the Golden Mean: Family Stories (Agora Publishing House, 2021). Moderator: Mariusz Szczygieł The meeting will be broadcast live. The meeting is co-financed by the City of Warsaw as part of the Wrzenie.doc project.