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Author Tammeus, Bill

Title They were just people : stories of rescue in Poland during the Holocaust / Bill Tammeus and Jacques Cukierkorn
Published Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 236 pages) : maps, portraits
Contents Introduction -- The stories -- Zygie Allweiss -- Irene Bau -- Sheila Bernard -- Maria Devinki -- Aaron Elster and Irene Budkowski -- Roman Frayman -- Rose Gelbart -- Felicia Graber -- Feliks Karpman -- Jerry Koenig -- Andre Nowacki -- Anna Schiff -- Barbara Turkeltaub -- Father Romuald Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel -- Felix Zandman -- Four rescuers -- After the war -- A brief chronology of events related to rescuing Jews in Poland -- Yad Vashem -- The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
Summary "Tammeus and Cukierkorn interview Jewish survivors and their non-Jewish rescuers, capturing for future generations stories of how, through courage and ingenuity, a few Jews in Poland escaped the Holocaust, and revealing how individuals can preserve civility and compassion even in the face of overwhelming evil"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Pariser Friedenskonferenz 1919-1920 Paris Polish Delegation gnd
Subject Jews -- Poland -- Biography
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Personal narratives
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland
Holocaust survivors -- Poland -- Biography
Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
Holocaust survivors
Jews
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
Judenvernichtung
Überlebender
Retter
SUBJECT Poland -- Biography
Subject Poland
United States
Polen
Genre/Form Biographies
Personal narratives
Form Electronic book
Author Cukierkorn, Jacques
ISBN 9780826271976
0826271979