They were just people
Subtitle: stories of rescue in Poland during the Holocaust
By: Bill Tammeus and Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn.
Contributors: Cukierkorn, Jacques.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbia, MI
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826218605
Subjects: 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; Poland -- Biography
Genres: Biography; Personal narratives
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The stories; title: Zygie Allweiss; title: Irene Bau; title: Sheila Bernard; title: Maria Devinki; title: Aaron Elster and Irene Budkowski; title: Roman Frayman; title: Rose Gelbart; title: Felicia Graber; title: Feliks Karpman; title: Jerry Koenig; title: Andre Nowacki; title: Anna Schiff; title: Barbara Turkeltaub; title: Father Romuald Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel; title: Felix Zandman; title: Rescuers; title: After the war; title: A brief chronology of events related to rescuing Jews in Poland; title: Yad Vashem; title: The Jewish foundation for the righteous.