Overview
Richard Lukas's book, encompassing the wartime recollections of sixty ordinary Poles under Nazi occupation, constitutes a valuable contribution to a new perspective on World War II. Lukas presents gripping first-person accounts of the years 1939-1945 by Polish Christians from diverse social and economic backgrounds. Their narratives, from both oral and written sources, contribute enormously to our understanding of the totality of the Holocaust. Many of those who speak in these pages attempted, often at extreme peril, to assist Jewish friends, neighbors, and even strangers who otherwise faced certain death at the hands of the German occupiers. Some took part in the underground resistance movement. Others, isolated from the Jews' experience and ill informed of that horror, were understandably preoccupied with their own survival in the face of brutal condition intended ultimately to exterminate or enslave the entire Polish population. These recollections of men and women are moving testimony to the human courage of a people struggling for survival against the rule of depravity. The power of their painful witness against the inhumanities of those times is undeniable.
Full Product Details
Author: Richard C. Lukas ,
Richard C. Lukas
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Imprint: The University Press of Kentucky
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.495kg
ISBN: 9780813116921
ISBN 10: 0813116929
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 21 September 1989
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Undergraduate
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
<p> Oral and written memoirs of some 60 polish men and women who lived through the German occupation of Poland. -- Library Journal
-Oral and written memoirs of some 60 polish men and women who lived through the German occupation of Poland.- -- Library Journal Oral and written memoirs of some 60 polish men and women who lived through the German occupation of Poland. -- Library Journal Oral and written memoirs of some 60 polish men and women who lived through the German occupation of Poland. -- Library Journal
Oral and written memoirs of some 60 polish men and women who lived through the German occupation of Poland. -- Library Journal
-Oral and written memoirs of some 60 polish men and women who lived through the German occupation of Poland.- -- Library Journal
Author Information
Richard C. Lukas has authored, co-authored, or edited nine books including Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust and The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944. Until his retirement, he was adjunct professor of history at the University of South Florida.
