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Emptying his late mother’s Warsaw flat, a son sorts through her books and her life.

1937: a Jewish boxer rises as a gangster’s enforcer in Warsaw’s underworld.

A Warsaw prosecutor investigates a death during a group therapy weekend.

1939–45: Warsaw’s zookeepers hide Jews in the empty cages and villa of the zoo.

1943: a Jewish widow with false papers is arrested in occupied Warsaw.

1930s: a young writer returns to Krochmalna Street and his childhood love in Warsaw.

1943: Marek Edelman, last leader of the ghetto uprising, looks back at Warsaw.

1939–43: the Warsaw ghetto, from its walling to the uprising, in an archivist’s notes.

A Jewish pianist survives the Warsaw ghetto and the city’s destruction.

1870s: a rich Warsaw merchant ruins himself for a cold aristocrat.

An eccentric old woman in a remote Silesian hamlet suspects animals of killing hunters.

A thousand years of Wrocław, once Breslau, a city passed between nations.

1933: a Breslau detective investigates a grisly murder as the Nazis take power.