Physician Under the Nazis (eBook)

Memoirs of Henry Glenwick

David Glenwick (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2010
90 Seiten
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-5137-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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.

Autor

David Glenwick, professor of psychology and director of the graduate program in clinical psychology at Fordham University, writes and researches in the areas of child and family disorders, developmental disabilities, and preventive and community-based interventions. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Foreword by Thane RosenbaumChapter 2 AcknowledgementsChapter 3 IntroductionChapter 4 A Childhood in WarsawChapter 5 2. My Education After High SchoolChapter 6 3. Marriage and FamilyChapter 7 4. The Outbreak of War and the Flight EastChapter 8 5. A Physician Under the RussiansChapter 9 6. The German OccupationChapter 10 7. Return to WarsawChapter 11 8. In the GhettoChapter 12 9. To the CampsChapter 13 10. In the Camps: Budzyn and RadomChapter 14 11.Vaihingen, Dachau, and the Road to LiberationChapter 15 12. After Liberation: In Garmisch-Partenkirchen and StuttgartChapter 16 13. Beginning Anew in AmericaChapter 17 EpilogueChapter 18 Afterword: A Son's Reflections on His Father's Memoirs and the HolocaustChapter 19 Appendix A: Chronology of Major Places in the Life of Henry Glenwick from 1909 to 1948Chapter 20 Appendix B: Map of Places Visited by Henry Glenwick, 1939 to 1946Chapter 21 Appendix C: Genealogy of the Gliniewiecki, Schulweis, and Rosenfein Families

Produkt-Details

• Vorwort: Thane Rosenbaum
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
• ISBN-10: 0-7618-5137-2 / 0761851372
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7618-5137-0 / 9780761851370