THE MISSING CITY
The Lives, Homes and Vanished Jewish World of LwówBy Maximilian C. James
Length4h 58m
About this audiobook
A city can survive while the world that gave it life disappears.
Before the war, Lwów was home to lawyers, doctors, artists, collectors, children, shopkeepers and families whose lives unfolded across streets that still exist today. Then occupation, persecution and genocide tore those networks apart.
THE MISSING CITY reconstructs that vanished Jewish world through the people who lived there: the homes they occupied, the letters they signed, the children they hid, the false identities they carried and the fragments of evidence that survived.
Drawing on archival records, testimony and documented family histories, Maximilian C. James follows lives through Soviet repression, German occupation, hiding, Janowska, survival and the long search for names after the war.
This is not a catalogue of death. It is an attempt to restore the people who existed before they became victims.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Biography and Memoir
Length4 hrs 58 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 5, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue: The Letter At Panienska 9
2Chapter 1: A City Of Addresses
3Chapter 2: The Collector’S Apartment
4Chapter 3: The Lawyer’S Library
5Chapter 4: Architects, Artists And Daughters
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6Chapter 5: Women Building Institutions
7Chapter 6: Giza’S World
8Chapter 7: The Anthropologist At Żółkiewska 1
9Chapter 8: Ordinary Ambitions
10Chapter 9: September 1939
11Chapter 10: The Family Split Apart
12Chapter 11: What The State Takes
13Chapter 12: June 1941
14Chapter 13: Cards, Work And Numbers
15Chapter 14: Rooms Become Property
16Chapter 15: The Collector At Panienska 9
17Chapter 16: The Architect’S Final Year
18Chapter 17: The Statistician Of A Dying Community
19Chapter 18: Before A Hiding Place Exists
20Chapter 19: Warszawska 167
21Chapter 20: The Oil Mill Debt
22Chapter 21: The Doctor Called Berek
23Chapter 22: Nine People In A Cellar
24Chapter 23: A Housemaid And Her Former Employers
25Chapter 24: What Is Rescue Worth?
26Chapter 25: Networks
27Chapter 26: The Paintings In Hiding
28Chapter 27: Niunia And Edek
29Chapter 28: Antonina Nowicka
30Chapter 29: Where Are You, Tola?
31Chapter 30: The Camp On The Edge Of The City
32Chapter 31: The Death Brigade
33Chapter 32: Bread
34Chapter 33: A City Returned, Not Restored
35Chapter 34: Searching For Children
36Chapter 35: Carrying The Records Out
37Chapter 36: Lives After Lwów
38Chapter 37: Buildings Without Their Families
39Chapter 38: Objects Without Owners
40Chapter 39: Recovering A Name
41Chapter 40
42Epilogue: The Last Record I Can Confirm
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