Stanisław Lem. Escape from the ghetto, escape from the past.
Throughout his life, Lem concealed the truth about his Jewish origins and wartime experiences. New findings shed light on his youth in occupied Lviv, his escape from the ghetto in August 1942, and the trauma of the Holocaust, which recurred in veiled form in his books. Stanisław Lem, one of the most prominent science fiction writers of the 20th century, was born in Lviv in 1921, the son of Samuel Lehm and Sabina née Wolner. He came from a wealthy, […]