| Christians in the Warsaw Ghetto: An Epitaph for the Unremembered Contributor(s): Dembowski, Peter F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 026802572X ISBN-13: 9780268025724 Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press OUR PRICE: $99.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - History | Holocaust - Religion | Judaism - History |
| Dewey: 940.531 |
| LCCN: 2005019660 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.38" W x 9.28" (0.90 lbs) 174 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Topical - Holocaust |
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| Publisher Description: During the early 1940s, some five thousand Christians of Jewish origin lived in the Warsaw ghetto. In this remarkable book, which combines both memoir and historical analysis, Peter F. Dembowski describes their fate. He also brings to light the little known fact that within the Warsaw ghetto were fully functioning Christian churches, including at first three and later two Roman Catholic parishes. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dembowski, Peter F.: - Peter F. Dembowski is Distinguished Service Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. Born and raised in Warsaw, Poland, Dembowski was involved in the underground activities of the Polish Home Army and participated in the Polish uprising. He was twice a prisoner of the Germans--first at the infamous prison known as Pawiak, where comrades bribed corrupt Gestapo officials to win his freedom, and later at Stalag XB Sandbostel, where he remained until the prison was liberated by the British. Upon liberation, Dembowski joined the Polish Army in the West. For his war service, he was decorated twice with the Polish Cross of Valor and the Silver Service Cross with Swords. |