Memoirs

In the Garden of Memory

Joanna Olczak-Ronikier is one of Poland’s most admired dramatists, screenwriters, and authors. In the Garden of Memory, her most acclaimed work, traces the lives of four generations of her own family—Polish Jews who were members of one of the country’s most illustrious clans, noted for its achievements in business, politics, and culture—as they lived, struggled, and (mostly) survived through the turbulent twentieth century. Visit thegardenofmemory.com.

Twarda 28

This building, close to the museum and the palace in the center of Warsaw, is called the Leib Osnos Tenement. In the process of publishing In the Garden of Memory about my mother’s family, I began to learn more about my father’s family, who had built it in the early years of the twentieth century.

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Peter Osnos; With Respect 07/20/25

John Smietanka, hosted a radio program in southwestern Michigan along with his career in the law and GOP politics. He interviewed me, for the last time in the summer of 2025, shortly before he died of emphysema (you can hear his labored breathing). His questioning and my answers are worth saving because of how vividly they seem to capture the era of Donald Trump in the context of American history. John was asking the right questions and whether my answers were right we'll only know many, many years from now.

Roses and Thorns

Two Memoirs of World War II

Written by Robert Osnos, M.D. and Marta Osnos

A Great Adventure

Thirty Years in Diplomatic Service. Written by Carroll Russell Sherer.