A Physician Under the Nazis: Memoirs of Henry Glenwick

by Thane Rosenbaum (Foreword by), David Glenwick (Editor)

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:	9780761851363
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/02/2010
Pages:	90
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

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

Foreword Thane Rosenbaum vii

Acknowledgments ix

Editor's Introduction xi

1 A Childhood in Warsaw 1

2 My Education After High School 7

3 Marriage and Family 14

4 The Outbreak of War and the Flight East 18

5 A Physician Under the Russians 28

6 The German Occupation 34

7 Return to Warsaw 48

8 In the Ghetto 53

9 To the Camps 59

10 In the Camps: Budzyn and Radorn 61

11 Vaihingen, Dachau, and the Road to Liberation 67

12 After Liberation: In Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Stuttgart 73

13 Beginning Anew in America 78

Epilogue 81

Afterword: A Son's Reflections on His Father's Memoirs and the Holocaust 83

Appendix A Chronology of Major Places in the Life of Henry Glenwick from 1909 to 1948 87

Appendix B Map of Places Visited by Henry Glenwick 1939 to 1946 89

Appendix C Genealogy of the, Gliniewiecki, Schulweis, and Rosenfein Families 91

Editorial Reviews

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

…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

…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 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 Browning

…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

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

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

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