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Book SynopsisA Physician Under the Nazis are the memoirs of the first forty years (1909-1948) of the life of Henry Glenwick. It focuses on his experiences as a physician in Russian-occupied Ukraine after the outbreak of World War II, his return to the Warsaw ghetto, and his subsequent journey through labor and concentration camps in Poland and Germany. Following a post-war period in Displaced Persons camps in Germany, the book concludes with the writer''s cross-Atlantic trip to New York and the beginnings of his life in the United States. This memoir provides the rarely-heard perspective on the Holocaust of a Jewish physician who served both Russian and German occupiers during the war.
Trade ReviewWritten with clinical precision, Henry Glenwick's memoirs provide particularly valuable insight…At each stop he candidly diagnoses the key contacts and privileges that gave him a chance at survival. -- Christopher R. Browning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; author of Origins of the Final Solution
…Especially important for a post-Holocaust generation…Glenwick…responded to a life of threat and suffering by pursuing a life of dignity and purpose. Godliness is discovered in the response to, not in the cause of, tragedy. -- Harold Schulweis, rabbi, Valley Beth Shalom, Encino, California, and founding chairman, Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
A gripping narrative of Jewish life under the Nazi occupation, as well as rarely included material about the prewar era in Warsaw. The writing is very understated and very powerful. Highly recommended! -- Samuel Kassow, professor of history, Trinity College
…depicts both the ordinariness and the challenges of life…of a young man struggling to become a doctor and practice his profession when humanity very nearly lost itself. -- Yael Danieli, Distinguished Professor of International Psychology, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and Their Children
A true story of courage, luck, brutality, and both the friendship and hostility of strangers. It is the Holocaust in microcosm, and I heartily recommend it. -- Stephen Berk, professor of Holocaust and Jewish studies, Union College
…The clinical detachment with which he writes…serves to heighten both the horror that he confronted daily and the resolve which enabled him to survive. This is a gripping account. -- Neil Gillman, professor emeritus of Jewish philosophy, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword by Thane Rosenbaum Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 A Childhood in Warsaw Chapter 5 2. My Education After High School Chapter 6 3. Marriage and Family Chapter 7 4. The Outbreak of War and the Flight East Chapter 8 5. A Physician Under the Russians Chapter 9 6. The German Occupation Chapter 10 7. Return to Warsaw Chapter 11 8. In the Ghetto Chapter 12 9. To the Camps Chapter 13 10. In the Camps: Budzyn and Radom Chapter 14 11.Vaihingen, Dachau, and the Road to Liberation Chapter 15 12. After Liberation: In Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Stuttgart Chapter 16 13. Beginning Anew in America Chapter 17 Epilogue Chapter 18 Afterword: A Son's Reflections on His Father's Memoirs and the Holocaust Chapter 19 Appendix A: Chronology of Major Places in the Life of Henry Glenwick from 1909 to 1948 Chapter 20 Appendix B: Map of Places Visited by Henry Glenwick, 1939 to 1946 Chapter 21 Appendix C: Genealogy of the Gliniewiecki, Schulweis, and Rosenfein Families
