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Shavelings in death camps : a Polish priest's memoir of imprisonment by the Nazis, 1939-1945 / Fr. Henryk Maria Malak ; translated by Bozúenna J. Tucker and Thomas R. Tucker.
Van Pelt Library D805.G3 M2913 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malak, Henry M.
- Standardized Title:
- Klechy w obozach śmierci. English
- Language:
- English
- Polish
- Subjects (All):
- Malak, Henry M.
- Catholic Church.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
- Dachau (Concentration camp).
- Stutthof (Concentration camp).
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp).
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.
- Clergy.
- Poland.
- Concentration camp inmates--Germany--Biography.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Internment camp inmates.
- Germany.
- Catholic Church--Poland--Clergy--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- Polish.
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, 2012.
- Summary:
- "At the beginning of World War II, Catholic priests all across Poland were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. This memoir by Fr. Henryk Maria Malak (1912-1987) is their story and his"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction to the 1961 Edition
- The Merciless Summer of 1939
- And That Day Arrived
- "Invitation" to a Meeting
- Górna Grupa
- To Gdańsk
- In the Hell of Stutthof
- The Butchers of Stutthof
- Miserere
- A Hunger for Freedom
- Holy Week 1940
- Ethnic Germans
- Grenzdorf
- Here You Have to Work
- Satan's Program
- What Will Become of Us?
- Sachsenhausen
- The First Days
- No Changes in Sachsenhausen
- One-Eyed Fritz
- In the Valley of Jehoshaphat
- A Chapel in the Death Camp
- The Stream of Time Was Flowing
- Roll Call
- The Last Days
- A Holy Shipment
- The Sanitarium in Dachau
- Snow
- The Year 1941 Approaches
- When on Candlemas Day All Was Covered with Snow
- Allow Us to Work
- The Second Freiland
- "Joyful Privileges"
- The Reverend Bishop
- September 15, 1941
- The Fence Fell and with It the Privileges
- A Memorable Transport
- Zdzich's Hanka
- Now You'll Rot in Dachau!
- The Mountain Girl with Little Thèrése's Face
- The Dismal Beginning of 1942
- Holy Week 1942
- Polish Priests Build a Crematorium
- Three Hundred Polish Priests to the Gas Chambers
- Guinea Pigs
- At the Turning Point of 1942
- My Mother's Brother
- They Would Have Survived
- Autumn of 1942
- Goebbels and the Catholic Nuns
- The Year 1943
- At the Turning Point of 1943
- Autumn of 1943
- The Nazi Nero
- Spring of 1944
- The Fruitful Summer of 1944
- The Nun Barbara
- A Diary
- At the Dawn of 1945
- The Last Month
- The Last Sunday
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780786470570
- 0786470577
- OCLC:
- 791643072
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