Warsaw is My Country : : The Story of Krystyna Bierzynska, 1928-1945 /

Warsaw is My Country : : The Story of Krystyna Bierzynska, 1928-1945 / / Beth Holmgren.

This book tells the story of Krystyna Bierzyńska, an acculturated Polish Jew, from her birth in Warsaw in 1928 up to the war’s end in May 1945, when she was reunited with her brother, Dolek, an officer in the Polish II Corps. Bierzyńska not only survived the Holocaust due in large part to the extrao...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Holmgren, Beth,
MitwirkendeR:
Holmgren, Beth,
Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Jews of Poland
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Physical Description:1 online resource (132 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Under the Portrait of Gustawa
  • 2. Being a Bierzyński
  • 3. Warsaw before the War, 1928–1939
  • 4. A Citizen of the World
  • 5. Warsaw: Invasion and Occupation, 1939–1940
  • 6. Learning the Life of a Fugitive, 1940–1942
  • 7. Warsaw: A Conspiratorial Identity, 1942–1944
  • 8. The 1944 Warsaw Uprising
  • 9. A Polish Prisoner of War, 1944–1945
  • 10. A Family Pact
  • 11. Krystyna Bierzyńska in Polish History
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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