A Physician Under the Nazis: Memoirs of Henry Glenwick

by David Glenwick (Editor), Thane Rosenbaum author of How Sweet it is (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761851370
Publisher:	Hamilton Books
Publication date:	12/02/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	90
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 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

Editorial Reviews

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

Written 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

…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

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

…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

…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

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

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

Written 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

From the Publisher

Written 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 Browning