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El farmacéutico del gueto de Cracovia: Tadeusz Pankiewicz: humanismo frente a la barbarie
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Historical FiguresGifts & Stationery GeneralHolocaust
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 15 2021
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Spanish
BiografÃa y análisis de las memorias de Tadeusz Pankiewicz, testigo de los horrores cometidos por las autoridades nazis en el gueto de Cracovia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, reconocido como Justo entre las Naciones por salvar a cientos de personas. Estudio a cargo de Fernando Garrido Baixauli, traductor de las memorias de Pankiewicz.
El 3 de marzo de 1941, las autoridades alemanas del Gobierno General, una parte de la extinta Polonia que los ejércitos de Hitler y Stalin se habÃan repartido en 1939, decretan la creación de un gueto en Cracovia. Tadeusz Pankiewicz, un farmacéutico católico residente en Podgórze, el distrito donde se confinarÃa a los judÃos de la zona, recibe la orden de abandonar su vivienda y su apteka, obteniendo en compensación un próspero negocio en el centro de la capital, confiscado a un farmacéutico judÃo. Pankiewicz se resiste a cumplir el mandato de las autoridades alemanas, convirtiéndose en el único residente no judÃo del gueto de Cracovia. Toma esta determinación convencido de que la hegemonÃa nazi sobre Europa no se prolongará, y los verdugos serán derrotados. Permanecer en el gueto contra la voluntad de las autoridades nazis expone a Pankiewicz al peligro constante de perder la vida y la fortuna. El farmacéutico pagará onerosos sobornos a los cuerpos policiales en el gueto, siendo testigo de la brutalidad de las fuerzas de ocupación y sus colaboradores en esta antesala al exterminio sistemático de millones de personas en campos de la muerte como Belżec, Treblinka, Sobibor o Auschwitz. Pero Pankiewicz no se comportará como un mero testigo del horror, sino que, junto a sus empleadas, Helena Krywaniuk, Aurelia Danek-Czortowa y Irena Droździkowska, tendrá el coraje de prestar ayuda a cuántos pasan por su establecimiento en esos dÃas, convertida la apteka Pod Orlem en un refugio durante los registros, deportaciones y asesinatos. Desde 1941 hasta 1943, el periodo que se extiende entre la fundación del gueto y el traslado de sus últimos residentes al campo de trabajo de Plaszów, Pankiewicz y sus colaboradoras asistirán a decenas de miles de personas, salvando cientos de vidas con un altruismo que cristalizará en todo tipo de acciones arrojadas, incluso temerarias, que van desde introducir comida, medicamentos y prensa de forma clandestina en el gueto, hasta ocultar a residentes señalados para su deportación o asesinato, ponerles en contacto con amigos y parientes fuera de aquellos muros, conseguir visados y documentación que favorezca su huida o sobornar a guardias y funcionarios con el único propósito de coronar una vida más, una muerte menos.
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