A Stairwell in Lodz - Tapa dura

Constance Cappel lived and worked in Poland from January 1994 to June 1997. She first served as a Business Advisor for the Peace Corps in the huge and mysterious city of Lodz, Poland, living in the former Lodz Ghetto, site of the largest Jewish cemetery in Europe and the second largest ghetto in Poland. She stayed in Poland after her Peace Corps tour of duty and moved to Warsaw where she worked as the Head of the Real Estate Agency for Price, Waterhouse. Dr. Cappel received her PhD degree from the Union Institute & University where she is now an adjunct faculty and vice-president of their Graduate Alumna Board. A Stairwell in Lodz is the second time that Dr. Cappel used the experimental form of interspersing fact and fiction in alternating chapters in a published book. She calls this form "faction," while others might call it "creative nonfiction."