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Forgotten Survivors: Polish Christians Remember the Nazi Occupation by Lukas
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2004-11-19
- Pages
- 232
- ISBN
- 9780700613502
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
ISBN-10
0700613501
ISBN-13
9780700613502
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30534306
Product Key Features
Book Title
Forgotten Survivors : Polish Christians Remember the Nazi Occupation
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Christianity / Protestant, Military / World War II, Europe / Eastern, Christianity / Catholic
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, History
Book Series
Modern War Studies
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-049491
Reviews
"While the Holocaust is well known, the fate of Polish Christians in the camps is far less so. This is a much needed, important, and moving book."- Piotr S. Wandycz , president, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America "Lukas pays special attention to the sufferings of Poland's Catholic majority, presenting stories from the resistance and the risings, from Auschwitz and Mauthausen, and from the death marches and forced labor camps. . . . A wonderful testament to the survival of the human spirit in adversity."- Norman Davies , author of God's Playground: A History of Poland, "While the Holocaust is well known, the fate of Polish Christians in the camps is far less so. This is a much needed, important, and moving book."-- Piotr S. Wandycz , president, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America "Lukas pays special attention to the sufferings of Poland's Catholic majority, presenting stories from the resistance and the risings, from Auschwitz and Mauthausen, and from the death marches and forced labor camps. . . . A wonderful testament to the survival of the human spirit in adversity."-- Norman Davies , author of God's Playground: A History of Poland, While the Holocaust is well known, the fate of Polish Christians in the camps is far less so. This is a much needed, important, and moving book.Piotr S. Wandycz , president, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America Lukas pays special attention to the sufferings of Polands Catholic majority, presenting stories from the resistance and the risings, from Auschwitz and Mauthausen, and from the death marches and forced labor camps. . . . A wonderful testament to the survival of the human spirit in adversity.Norman Davies , author of God's Playground: A History of Poland, "The most significant contribution of this book . . . [is that,] through the media of personal recollections, we are given insights into the numerous Polish rescue and aid organizations. . . . Overall, this collection of survivor accounts is a valuable addition to the historiography of Nazism and Polish-Jewish relations during the Second World War. It will be a particularly useful resource for those students and teachers who are reliant on English material. Quite naturally, the book benefits from the many strengths ingredient to a collection of personal memories . . . "-- H-Net Reviews "As a memorial volume, the text works well, aided by the inclusion of photographs of each survivor (then and now) and eight pages of sketches of life in Auschwitz by the survivor Jan Komski. . . . If approached as a memorial volume and/or a collection of oral histories, this is a fascinating book. . . . "-- SEER "These stories are moving and powerful. Lukas's introduction is a well-written, clear, and masterful summary of just what that 'forgotten Holocaust' of Polish Christians entailed during the six long years of Nazi occupation. That chapter alone should be required reading. . . . These testimonies, painful as they are, must be listened to because the story of Polish Christian persecution during World War II has been largely unheard."-- Polish American Journal, "The most significant contribution of this book . . . [is that,] through the media of personal recollections, we are given insights into the numerous Polish rescue and aid organizations. . . . Overall, this collection of survivor accounts is a valuable addition to the historiography of Nazism and Polish-Jewish relations during the Second World War. It will be a particularly useful resource for those students and teachers who are reliant on English material. Quite naturally, the book benefits from the many strengths ingredient to a collection of personal memories . . . "H-Net Reviews "As a memorial volume, the text works well, aided by the inclusion of photographs of each survivor (then and now) and eight pages of sketches of life in Auschwitz by the survivor Jan Komski. . . . If approached as a memorial volume and/or a collection of oral histories, this is a fascinating book. . . . "SEER "These stories are moving and powerful. Lukas's introduction is a well-written, clear, and masterful summary of just what that forgotten Holocaustof Polish Christians entailed during the six long years of Nazi occupation. That chapter alone should be required reading. . . . These testimonies, painful as they are, must be listened to because the story of Polish Christian persecution during World War II has been largely unheard."Polish American Journal, While the Holocaust is well known, the fate of Polish Christians in the camps is far less so. This is a much needed, important, and moving book.-- Piotr S. Wandycz , president, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America Lukas pays special attention to the sufferings of Poland's Catholic majority, presenting stories from the resistance and the risings, from Auschwitz and Mauthausen, and from the death marches and forced labor camps. . . . A wonderful testament to the survival of the human spirit in adversity.-- Norman Davies , author of God's Playground: A History of Poland
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
940.53/185/08827
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction Victor Bik Feliks J. Bruks Dr. Stanley Garstka Katherine Graczyk Lech A. Halko Zbigniew M. Haszlakiewicz Jan Komski Krystyna Kuczynska-Dudli Wanda Lorenc Barbara Makuch Halina Marin Dr. Jan Moor-Jankowski Antoni Palmowski Wieslaw Piller Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski Jan Porembski Josef Poslinksi Michael Preisler Franciszek J. Proch Stanley J. Sagan Irena Sendler Andrzej Slawinski Lilka Trzcinska-Croydon Bozenna Urbanowicz-Gilbride Joseph Wardzala Marian Wojciechowski Paul Zenon Wos Epilogue Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Wanda Lorenc watched horrified as the first Wehrmacht soldiers stormed into Warsaw. Jan Porembski witnessed the mass executions of Polish civilians. Barbara Makuch became a courier for the Polish underground until she was caught and tortured. Jan Komski was thrown into the very first transport to Auschwitz and observed its rapid expansion firsthand. But, unlike the nearly three million other Polish Christians (and three million Polish Jews) who died during World War II, they survived. Richard Lukas presents the compelling eyewitness accounts of these and other Polish Christians who suffered at the hands of the Germans. They bear witness to unspeakable horrors endured by those who were tortured, forced into slavery, shipped off to concentration camps, and even subjected to medical experiments. Their stories provide a somber reminder that non-Jewish Poles were just as likely as Jews to suffer at the hands of the Nazis, who viewed them with nearly equal contempt. Zbigniew Haszlakiewicz remembers being brutally whipped and tortured-hung by his arms and legs, hands tied behind, and repeatedly stabbed: "I prayed to lose consciousness, but it was impossible. The Gestapo soon tired and started to drink beer and smoke cigarettes as they sat at that big desk. And I hung like a hammock." Lorenc tells of encountering starving Jews: "I broke an end off one loaf of bread] and threw it to a woman in the group. An SS guard saw what I had done, rushed over to me and began to beat me with her stick. When I fell, she beat me with her boots. Two of my teeth dislodged and my mouth filled with blood. When I returned to the barracks, no one recognized me." But Dr. Jan Moor-Jankowski also recalls: "One night they took a prisoner and hanged him. He died in front of our eyes. I remember seeing a tiny twig of a tree from the window. As time passed, I saw a bud on the twig and soon leaves came out. It was something that gave me hope." Through the survivors' voices we also learn about the Polish underground, the Council for Aid to Jews (Zegota), the Jewish Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Home Army's heroic battle during the Warsaw Uprising in late 1944. Lukas places the narratives in their historical context and Jan Komski's drawings capture the horror of concentration camp life., Wanda Lorenc watched horrified as the first Wehrmacht soldiers stormed into Warsaw. Jan Porembski witnessed the mass executions of Polish civilians. Barbara Makuch became a courier for the Polish underground until she was caught and tortured. Jan Komski was thrown into the very first transport to Auschwitz and observed its rapid expansion firsthand. But, unlike the nearly three million other Polish Christians (and three million Polish Jews) who died during World War II, they survived. Richard Lukas presents the compelling eyewitness accounts of these and other Polish Christians who suffered at the hands of the Germans. They bear witness to unspeakable horrors endured by those who were tortured, forced into slavery, shipped off to concentration camps, and even subjected to medical experiments. Their stories provide a somber reminder that non-Jewish Poles were just as likely as Jews to suffer at the hands of the Nazis, who viewed them with nearly equal contempt. Zbigniew Haszlakiewicz remembers being brutally whipped and tortured-hung by his arms and legs, hands tied behind, and repeatedly stabbed: "I prayed to lose consciousness, but it was impossible. The Gestapo soon tired and started to drink beer and smoke cigarettes as they sat at that big desk. And I hung like a hammock." Lorenc tells of encountering starving Jews: "I broke an end off one loaf [of bread] and threw it to a woman in the group. An SS guard saw what I had done, rushed over to me and began to beat me with her stick. When I fell, she beat me with her boots. Two of my teeth dislodged and my mouth filled with blood. When I returned to the barracks, no one recognized me." But Dr. Jan Moor-Jankowski also recalls: "One night they took a prisoner and hanged him. He died in front of our eyes. I remember seeing a tiny twig of a tree from the window. As time passed, I saw a bud on the twig and soon leaves came out. It was something that gave me hope." Through the survivors' voices we also learn about the Polish underground, the Council for Aid to Jews (Zegota), the Jewish Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Home Army's heroic battle during the Warsaw Uprising in late 1944. Lukas places the narratives in their historical context and Jan Komski's drawings capture the horror of concentration camp life.
LC Classification Number
D804.5.C47F67 2004
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