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Memoirs Red and White: Poland, the War, and After

Memoirs Red and White: Poland, the War, and After

Dembowski, Peter F.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralEastern European HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 0268026203
ISBN13: 9780268026202
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Sep 30 2015
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Born after World War I into an educated and progressive Polish family, Peter F. Dembowski was a teenager during the joint occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. His account of life as a young Polish soldier, as an immigrant to Canada, and finally as an American professor is a gripping narrative of life before, during, and after the horrors of World War II. Skillfully weaving a tapestry of emotion and history, Dembowski recounts the effects of loss: at age twelve, his father's death; and later, the arrest of his mother and sister by the Gestapo and their execution in 1942 in the women's concentration camp of Ravensbrück. Balancing those tragedies, Dembowski recalls the loving care given him by Janina Dembowska, the wife of his paternal uncle, as well as the inspiring strength of character he witnessed in his teachers and extended family.

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