The work is an analysis of Krzysztof A. Worobiec’s two-volume publication Lost Villages of the Pisz Forest: The Unknown History of the Masurian Borderland (Austeria: Kraków–Budapest–Syracuse, 2021). Its author, a geographer and cultural historian from Wrocław who settled in Wojnowo in Mazury, narrates the history of East Prussian villages that ceased to exist due to the cataclysm of World War II and the resolutions of the Yalta Conference. Worobiec tells the story of these villages and their inhabitants from the perspective of microhistory, the history of everyday life, and records traces of the cultural palimpsest that existed on the German-Polish border, where a unique culture of the Prussian Masurians was formed, later destroyed by the war and post-Yalta politics.