Overview
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Klechy w obozach śmierci. English
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, 2012
- Locale
- Germany
- 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
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- External Link
-
Electronic version(s) available. Hosted by ProQuest
- ISBN
- 9780786470570
0786470577 - Additional Form
-
Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
- Physical Description
- viii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish. Internment camp inmates--Germany--Biography. Nazi concentration camp inmates--Germany--Biography. World War, 1939-1945--Religious aspects--Catholic Church. Personal narratives. Biographies. Malak, Henry M. Dachau (Concentration camp) Stutthof (Concentration camp) Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) Catholic Church--Poland--Clergy--Biography.
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