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A 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.

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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

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David Glenwick, professor of psychology and director of the graduate program in clinical psychology at Fordham University, writes and researches in the areas of child and family disorders, developmental disabilities, and preventive and community-based interventions. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association.

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