Stefan wrote that I asked: does Norman Davies know ANYTHING on the
deportations to Siberia?
I never asked this question and I do not appreciate the misquote.
This is what I wrote:
Does anyone know if Norman Davies has published anything on the
deportations
to Siberia? This would be a logical continuation of his work. He
may not
even be that familiar with the events. Does anyone in the group
know Norman
Davies or know how to reach him?
I am familiar with Norman Davies' work and I use God's Playground as
a reference source. When I write 'familiar' I mean this is an
academic sense. As a professor of pathology, the author of numerous
scientific publications, and as an editor of an international medical
journal, I understand the exhaustive amount of research that is
needed to be considered truly familiar with a topic. The ability to
give a ten minute interview does not qualify.
The point of my message is that there is an opportunity for someone
such as Norman Davies to fill an obvious void and provide the first
fully documented account of this history in the way that Anne
Applebaum provided the first documented account of the Gulag system
with Gulag: A History. Such a project would necessitate among other
things, travel to various countries and study a countless number of
documents first hand.
Nor did I state that I wish to personally contact Norman Davies and I
have no intention of contacting him. My point is that maybe someone
in the group and perhaps representing the group can suggest to him
that there is a growing interest in the topic and witnesses are
rapidly leaving us.
Bob
--- In Kresy-Siberia@..., Stefan Wisniowski
<swisniowski@p...> wrote:
Bob - does Norman Davies know anything on the deportations to
Siberia? Is
the Pope Polish?!
Norman's wife Myshka is from Lwow and he is very familiar with the
events.
Norman is actually interviewed in the film "A Forgotten Odyssey"
and when we
premiered it in Sydney just after the Olympics in September 2001,
he sent a
message to be read on the evening. Here it is:
Message from Norman Davies
21 September 2001
Congratulations on screening Jagna's film which I watched on
History Channel
last Monday. I have seen it before but it was a moving experience
again.
Our home has a common interest in the subject with Mr Wisniowski.
The
parents of my wife, Myszka, like those of Mr Wisniowski, were in
the town of
Brody near Lvov when the Soviet Army arrived. Her father, as an
educated
man and professional surveyor, was on the list of people to be
deported. He
only escaped because the NKVD went to arrest him at an old address
from
which he had removed sometime earlier.
This incident suggests that the Soviet authorities planned for the
deportations 2 or 3 years before they actually happened.
I hope that the Australian media take note of the film and they
react more
sensibly than those in London. The BBC included an item about the
film in
one of its programs but relied on only "expert" information of a
woman from
LSE who calmly explained the deportations away as a rational
exercise in
removing "anti-soviet elements", and who forgot to mention that a
similar
number of human beings perished in the Soviet deportations as
perished in
Auschwitz.
Serdecznie pozdrawiam,
Professor Norman Davies
Author, Europe - A History
Bob I will send you some contact details off-line.
Regards,
Stefan Wisniowski
From: "Robert Ambros" <AmbrosR@m...>
Does anyone know if Norman Davies has published anything on the
deportations
to Siberia? This would be a logical continuation of his work.
He may not
even be that familiar with the events. Does anyone in the group
know Norman
Davies or know how to reach him?
Bob
