2024 | Kalina Błażejowska "Bezduszni. Zapomniana zagłada chorych" - Instytut Pileckiego
2024 | Kalina Błażejowska "Bezduszni. Zapomniana zagłada chorych"
Kalina Błażejowska’s book, Bezduszni. Zapomniana zagłada chorych (Czarne 2023), won the “Historical reportage” category during the 4th edition of the Pilecki Award.
The awarded publication by a journalist and columnist associated with the “Tygodnik Powszechny” weekly magazine tells the story of the fate of disabled children, mentally ill adults and elderly people requiring round-the-clock care, who were deemed “unworthy of life” by German doctors – the titular “bezduszni”, or “soulless”. The author reveals the tragic fate of the victims of the Nazi “euthanasia” program, introducing the history of three institutions: a child psychiatric clinic in Lubliniec, a psychiatric hospital in Gostynin and a nursing home in Śrem. Kalina Błażejowska’s book uses previously unknown documents and accounts from witnesses and victims’ families to restore the memory of this forgotten extermination.
Kalina Błażejowska, reporterka i publicystka. Laureatka m.in. Nagrody „Newsweeka” im. Teresy Torańskiej i Grand Prix Nagrody Dziennikarzy Małopolski. Jej debiut literacki "Uparte serce. Biografia Poświatowskiej" (Znak 2014) wyróżniono m.in. nominacją do Nagrody Literackiej Gryfia i tytułem Krakowskiej Książki Miesiąca.
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