Irene Tomaszewski is a writer and founding president of the Montreal-based Canadian Foundation for Polish Studies. Her book, Inside a Gestapo Prison 1942-44: The Letters of Krystyna Wituska is scheduled for publication by Wayne State University Press in May 2006. She co-authored Żegota: The Council for Aid to Jews in Occupied Poland 1942-45 and wrote the screenplay for a documentary by the same title produced by Sy Rotter for Documentaries International (Washington DC). She was also the Associate Producer and Researcher for the CBC’s A Web of War, a documentary about Poland in World War II.