Book Review
Wed, 06/08/2016 - 14:53
News Staff
A POLISH DOCTOR IN THE NAZI CAMPS
My Mother’s Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade
By Barbara Rylko-Bauer
Known as Jadzia (Yah’-jah), Jadwiga Lenartowicz Rylko was a young Polish Catholic physician in Lodz at the start of World War II. Suspected of resistance activities, she was arrested in January 1944. For the next fifteen months, she endured three Nazi concentration camps and a forty-two-day death march, spending pat of this time working as a prisoner-doctor to Jewish slave laborers. A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps follows Jadzia from her childhood and medical training, through her wartime experiences, to her struggles to create a new life in the postwar world.