A Physician Under the Nazis - Memoirs of Henry Glenwick

Informationen zum Autor Edited by David Glenwick - Foreword by Thane Rosenbaum Klappentext A Physician Under the Nazis are the memoirs of the first forty years (1909-1948) of the life of Henry Glenwick. It focuses on his experiences as a physician in Russian-occupied Ukraine after the outbreak of World War II, his return to the Warsaw ghetto, and his subsequent journey through labor and concentration camps in Poland and Germany. Following a post-war period in Displaced Persons camps in Germany, the book concludes with the writer's cross-Atlantic trip to New York and the beginnings of his life in the United States. This memoir provides the rarely-heard perspective on the Holocaust of a Jewish physician who served both Russian and German occupiers during the war. Zusammenfassung This memoir focuses on Henry Glenwick's experiences as a physician in Russian-occupied Ukraine after the outbreak of World War II! his return to the Warsaw ghetto! and his subsequent journey through labor and concentration camps in Poland and Germany! providing rarely-heard perspective on the Holocaust. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Foreword by Thane Rosenbaum Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 A Childhood in Warsaw Chapter 5 2. My Education After High School Chapter 6 3. Marriage and Family Chapter 7 4. The Outbreak of War and the Flight East Chapter 8 5. A Physician Under the Russians Chapter 9 6. The German Occupation Chapter 10 7. Return to Warsaw Chapter 11 8. In the Ghetto Chapter 12 9. To the Camps Chapter 13 10. In the Camps: Budzyn and Radom Chapter 14 11.Vaihingen, Dachau, and the Road to Liberation Chapter 15 12. After Liberation: In Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Stuttgart Chapter 16 13. Beginning Anew in America Chapter 17 Epilogue Chapter 18 Afterword: A Son's Reflections on His Father's Memoirs and the Holocaust Chapter 19 Appendix A: Chronology of Major Places in the Life of Henry Glenwick from 1909 to 1948 Chapter 20 Appendix B: Map of Places Visited by Henry Glenwick, 1939 to 1946 Chapter 21 Appendix C: Genealogy of the Gliniewiecki, Schulweis, and Rosenfein Families...

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• Authors: David/ Rosenbaum Glenwick
• Assisted by: David Glenwick (Editor), Glenwick David (Editor), Rosenbaum Thane (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2010
• EAN: 9780761851363
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-5136-3
• No. of pages: 90
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Ukraine, MEDICAL / General, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Memoirs, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, The Holocaust, Medical profession, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / Eastern Front, HISTORY / Europe / Ukraine, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs