Periodical "Głos Polski" Issued by Former Prisoners of Dachau Concentration Camp

"Głos Polski" (eng. Polish Voice) is an irregular periodical, printed using the duplicating technique by the Polish Committee in Dachau composed of former prisoners of the concentration camp. It is a documentary magazine published only six times, which included several recurring thematic threads. To the fore came the joy of surviving the camp ordeal and living to see the liberation by American soldiers, combined with the memory of fellow prisoners, numbering in the thousands, who did not live to see this moment. The first issue also features an occasional remembrance of the 3rd of May Constitution combined with a declaration of allegiance to independent Poland. Another theme are the images of the abyss of camp terror linked with the conviction of the just and inevitable punishment that would be meted out to the torturers. The third theme consisted of agency reports and Polish affairs, including the arrest of leaders of the Polish underground state, population movements, as well as the progressive Sovietisation of the country and the hopes attached to Poland’s Western allies.
This magazine is a great rarity in library collections. The complete Ossolineum copy has a bookbinding covered with a prison striped cloth with the camp symbols glued on. As a continuation in 1945 the “Słowo Polskie” journal was published by the Polish Committee in Dachau, and later “Słowo Katolickie” in 1947–1959.
Text in Polish.