This is the story of Rosa Feurmann and others who found themselves as “guests” of the Hotel Polski during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. The Hotel Polski mysteriously drew in Jewish survivors who wished to buy their way to freedom. Rosa, a Jewish partisan infiltrates the hotel. She is detected and comes under the personal control of the Hotel’s Nazi Commandant. What she did to survive continues to haunt Rosa’s life.

She is called as a witness at the Commandant’s War Crimes Trial in Heidelberg and years later, she attends a reunion of the surviving hotel `guests’.
It is only upon her return to Israel that Rosa ultimately reconciles her inner conflicts.

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"An engrossing story written with skill and compassion within the context of historical reality."
Professor Gordon DiPaolo, Staten Island University

"A gripping tale that illustrates the moral ambiguity of the Holocaust and the struggle of ordinary people to retain their humanity under extraordinary circumstances."
Prof. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Head of Jewish Studies, Arizona State University.

"The Polski Affair weaves the fabric of history’s worst time and illustrates how we hang on threads of hope and find happiness in ways difficult to imagine. I marvel at its profound impact.
The pages flew through my hands as I lost myself in the story."
Dr Janice Johnson, Educator.

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Leon H. Gildin is an attorney who has represented writers, composers and actors. He has acted as both an attorney and a principal in the development of properties for television and motion pictures. He has also produced both on and off-Broadway.

In the midst of his legal practice Mr. Gildin authored a short story which became a play entitled, APPEAR AND SHOW CAUSE, which opened the season at the Cleveland Playhouse and was awarded the Audelco Award in New York for its off-Broadway production.

Mr. Gildin also wrote, YOU CAN'T DO BUSINESS (OR MOST ANYTHING ELSE) WITHOUT YIDDISH published by Hippocrene Books, New York, which sold out and is still available on Amazon.com

He has also translated Yiddish poetry and these translations have been published in various Anglo-Jewish publications.

The role of the Hotel Polski is a little known event that took place in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation as a result of which THE POLSKI AFFAIR can be classified as documentary fiction. It explores the moral struggle of those who survived and the fortuitous nature of that survival.

Mr. Gildin now resides in Paradise Valley, Arizona with his wife, Gloria.