Golden Harvest - Jan Tomasz Gross with Irena Grudzinska Gross young adult Rare emotional intensity

Rare emotional intensity

Little Brown Publishing 2003

There's Grandpa

questioning and hope

a picture emerges of a complex and thoughtful man guiding the city’s most famous merchant bank through the turbulent period between 1920’2 and 1950’s

Golden Harvest - Jan Tomasz Gross with Irena Grudzinska Gross young adult Rare emotional intensityIt seems at first commonplace: a photograph of peasants at harvest time, after work well done, resting contentedly with their tools, behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally notices that what seemed innocent on first view becomes horrific: the crops scattered in front of the group are skulls and bones. Where are we? Who are the people in the photograph, and what are they doing? The starting point of Jan Gross's A Golden Harvest, this