Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof Esperanto on behalf of the Zamenhof family, Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof has nevertheless been disinclined to assume a leading role in the Esperanto movement. Though he had no plans to write an autobiography, Polish journalist Roman Dobrzyński persuaded him to participate in a series of conversations over a ten-year period, which resulted in "La Zamenhof-strato" ("Zamenhof Street", 2003), a book detailing his life during the Nazi occupation of Poland, including his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Polish Resistance. Beyond an account of his own life, the book also relates the philosophy, history and tribulations of the Esperanto movement pioneered by
Ludwik Hass Ludwik Hass Ludwik Hass (1918–2008) was a Polish historian who specialised in the history of Freemasonry in Poland. Hass was born to Jewish parents in Stanisławow. He was brought up in a middle-class family which had been assimilated to polish nationalism. He attended the University of Lvov, which was then in the territory of the Polish Second Republic. While there he became a Trotskyist. Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 he found himself in the territory of the Soviet Union. He was arrested and sent to Vorkutlag. He attributed his survival due to being assigned office work thanks