War in the Shadow of Auschwitz
Subtitle: Memoirs of a Polish Resistance Fighter and Survivor of the Death Camps (Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780815607229
Subjects: Biography: general; The Holocaust; Jewish Holocaust Personal Narratives; Biography & Autobiography; History - Military / War; Biography/Autobiography; Germany; Military - World War II; Military; Biography; Guerrillas; Personal narratives, Polish; Poland; Prisoners Of War; Wiernicki, John; World War, 1939-1945
Description: "1943: Polish underground fighter John Wiernicki is captured and beaten by the Gestapo, then shipped to Auschwitz. In this memoir, John Wiernicki, a Gentile, details "life" in the infamous death camp and his battle to survive, physically and morally, in the face of utter evil. He begins by remembering his aristocratic youth, an idyllic time shattered by German invasion.

The ensuing dark days of occupation would fire the adolescent Wiernicki with a burning desire to serve Poland, a cause that led him to valiant action and eventual arrest."--BOOK JACKET.