The Darkest Years Author:Severin Caitung, Marge Caitung Marge, our son, Richard, and I were among the three million Jews living in Poland when Adolpf Hitler and his Nazi forces invaded that country on September 1, 1939. After the Nazis were defeated more than five years later, we were among the fewer than 60,000 Jews in Poland who survived. Marge's recollections in this book were made in the Spri... more »ng of 1993 shortly before her death and almost 48 years after the end of Nazi oppression. Some of my recollections were made in the Spring of 1994, others in 1981. The recollections of Marge's brother-in-law, Abraham Adams, also in this book, were written by him in 1955. --Severin Caitung, Preface« less