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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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