IWM In Conversation: Elżbieta Moczarska

Join Elżbieta Moczarska, translator Sean Gasper Bye and award-winning historian Roger Moorhouse for the UK launch of Elżbieta's late-father's book, Conversations with an Executioner. Kazimierz Moczarski, the author, was a Polish writer, journalist, and soldier. He saw combat during the German invasion of Poland, after the country fell he fought the Nazi occupation as part of the resistance movement. After the war, and following the USSR's implementation of a puppet government in Poland, Kazimierz was imprisoned by the Communist regime. Here he shared a cell with Nazi war criminal Jürgen Stroop, the man responsible for the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. After Kazimierz was released, he wrote Conversations with an Executioner about his time sharing a prison cell with Stroop. Join us at IWM London for this fascinating talk exploring Kazimierz Moczarski's extraordinary wartime experiences. Following the talk, have your questions answered and explore IWM London's Holocaust Galleries after hours. Warsaw, 1949: freedom fighter and journalist Kazimierz Moczarski is being held in a maximum security prison, accused of being an enemy of the state by the Polish secret police. A survivor of the Warsaw Uprising, he is horrified to find himself locked up in a cell with the notorious Nazi official responsible for the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the death of over 50,000 people: Jürgen Stroop. For 255 days Stroop talks to Moczarski of his life, entirely unrepentant of the crimes for which he would soon be executed himself. Conversations with an Executioner is Moczarski’s first-hand account of these extraordinary exchanges, an insight into the mind of one of history’s most brutal war criminals, and one that unflinchingly examines some of humanity’s darkest moments. Adults £20