- Summary
- "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
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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
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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