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Memories of a devil : my life as a Jesuit in Dachau / Father Chester Fabisiak, S.J..

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: BX4705.F334 A3 2018

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    "The year is 1939. The German army marches into Poland to a frosty reception. The air is thick with the threat of violence. Rumor and conspiracy lurk behind every corner. In this environment, a recently ordained Jesuit priest receives a message: "You are a target. Get out while you still can." Father Chester Fabisiak did not believe that warning, and it almost cost him his life. "Memories of a Devil: My Life as a Jesuit in Dachau" is Father Chester's recounting of what happened next; a dramatic, pulse-pounding, cautionary tale of the price of disbelief in evil. As readers follow Father Fabisiak's journey through the Holocaust from occupied Poland to the notorious Dachau concentration camp near Munich, they are shown the depths of humanity's depravity - and of its grace. Fabisiak's message is clear: humanity's will is constantly threatened by evil and only resistance can overcome it. Father Fabisiak's memoir is a treasure trove of historical facts about the Holocaust and an important philosophical testament about humanity's duty to challenge evil wherever it is found. While Fabisiak survived his ordeal in Dachau, he saw firsthand the cruelty and carnage of the Holocaust. His gratitude for being liberated by U.S. soldiers before he suffered that same fate propelled him to live a life of servitude as a Jesuit priest in America. After his death in 1996, his niece Danuta made sure his manuscript was converted into a memoir, so his teachings could be shared with future generations. "Memories of a Devil" has been hailed among holocaust books as being "infinitely inspiriting" and "a brave but disturbing act of bearing historical witness" by Kirkus Reviews."--Amazon.com.
    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Fabisiak, Chester, author.
    Published
    USA : [publisher not identified], [2018]
    ©2018
    Locale
    Germany
    Poland
    Contents
    An acknowledgment:
    Father Fabisiak's acknowledgments
    Prologue
    The beginning
    Flowers at the foot of the monument
    New visits from the Gestapo
    Jailed
    My sister-in-law had reason
    Watching the mouth of the machine gun
    Facing new death
    Change of the guard
    Friend of a Jewish family
    Saving a young Jewish boy
    A grand mystery: kindness without measure
    Or cruelty without limits
    Triumph of the tribune
    The family of Brzezinskich
    The flight
    In the arms of a German colonel
    The betrayed
    In the hands of the Gestapo
    In jail for the second time
    The gesture of a noble Austrian
    The judge
    Zachthaus-Sieradz cell 13
    Mario
    Stasiek
    The taciturn genius
    A saved bounty
    Saved by a song
    Game of cards
    Attention to the imprisoned
    The secretary
    I traveled to Ostrow Wiekopolski
    The mechanics
    Autumn in Ronau
    The chief of the workforce camp
    Tilly, the chief of the works
    Helper of Anthony
    Kotzine
    The comedy of a fugitive
    The carpenter
    The soldier waiter
    The kitchen inspector
    We are comrades
    The small farms
    The doctor to the sticks
    Off to Lodz
    A daring step
    Cell 31
    More clever than the Germans
    In search of the dust
    The priests and the Jews
    The failure
    The road to Dachau
    Dachau
    Quarantine
    A suspicious friendship
    The work of a horse
    Baumlager No. 1
    Baumlager No. 2
    In search of what I like
    The Command in which the priests could not work
    Tooth for tooth
    The sick ones
    The infirmary
    Among the Communists
    The English spy
    The boy who snored
    The Jewish prisoner who was saved
    The thief
    The young Greek man
    The jubilee of ten years in Dachau
    Zbyszek
    Hampel Edek
    Julio
    Jasiu
    One day in Dachau
    The punishments
    The showers
    The crematorium
    The sacrifice of Jewish Families
    Katyn
    Elegant Jung
    Some nationalities at Dachau
    The Germans
    The martyrs of Poland
    The Reds
    The French
    The priests
    The wine
    Neutral zone
    A bit of "Revier"
    The experiments
    The food
    The investigations
    The inseparable
    Entertainment
    Friends are coming
    The liberation
    The bombings
    The American campaign
    Pullach
    New problems
    The fortune-telling nun
    Toward Rome
    In Rome
    Lucky Saturdays
    Something small has become large-scale
    The organization
    Just them?
    Neither one nor the other...then, who?
    If you think a little, you can
    God and the suffering of man
    German morality
    Epilogue
    The laughter of Warsaw
    A brief biography of Father Chester Fabisiak, SJ
    Notes
    An acknowledgment: -- Father Fabisiak's acknowledgments -- Prologue -- The beginning -- Flowers at the foot of the monument -- New visits from the Gestapo -- Jailed -- My sister-in-law had reason -- Watching the mouth of the machine gun -- Facing new death -- Change of the guard -- Friend of a Jewish family -- Saving a young Jewish boy -- A grand mystery: kindness without measure -- Or cruelty without limits -- Triumph of the tribune -- The family of Brzezinskich -- The flight -- In the arms of a German colonel -- The betrayed -- In the hands of the Gestapo -- In jail for the second time -- The gesture of a noble Austrian -- The judge -- Zachthaus-Sieradz cell 13 -- Mario -- Stasiek -- The taciturn genius -- A saved bounty -- Saved by a song -- Game of cards -- Attention to the imprisoned -- The secretary -- I traveled to Ostrow Wiekopolski -- The mechanics -- Autumn in Ronau -- The chief of the workforce camp -- Tilly, the chief of the works -- Helper of Anthony -- Kotzine -- The comedy of a fugitive -- The carpenter -- The soldier waiter -- The kitchen inspector -- We are comrades -- The small farms -- The doctor to the sticks -- Off to Lodz -- A daring step -- Cell 31 -- More clever than the Germans -- In search of the dust -- The priests and the Jews -- The failure -- The road to Dachau -- Dachau -- Quarantine -- A suspicious friendship -- The work of a horse -- Baumlager No. 1 -- Baumlager No. 2 -- In search of what I like -- The Command in which the priests could not work -- Tooth for tooth -- The sick ones -- The infirmary -- Among the Communists -- The English spy -- The boy who snored -- The Jewish prisoner who was saved -- The thief -- The young Greek man -- The jubilee of ten years in Dachau -- Zbyszek -- Hampel Edek -- Julio -- Jasiu -- One day in Dachau -- The punishments -- The showers -- The crematorium -- The sacrifice of Jewish Families -- Katyn -- Elegant Jung -- Some nationalities at Dachau -- The Germans -- The martyrs of Poland -- The Reds -- The French -- The priests -- The wine -- Neutral zone -- A bit of "Revier" -- The experiments -- The food -- The investigations -- The inseparable -- Entertainment -- Friends are coming -- The liberation -- The bombings -- The American campaign -- Pullach -- New problems -- The fortune-telling nun -- Toward Rome -- In Rome -- Lucky Saturdays -- Something small has become large-scale -- The organization -- Just them? -- Neither one nor the other...then, who? -- If you think a little, you can -- God and the suffering of man -- German morality -- Epilogue -- The laughter of Warsaw -- A brief biography of Father Chester Fabisiak, SJ

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    Language
    English
    ISBN
    9781732117013
    1732117012
    9781732117006
    1732117004
    Physical Description
    xxi, 430 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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