Shavelings in Death Camps

Bożenna J. Tucker was born in Poland and knew Fr. Henryk Maria Malak from the Heilbronn DP camp. She is retired as an analyst at the U.S. Department of Defense and lives in Manchester, New Hampshire. Thomas R. Tucker studied Slavic languages and literatures at Harvard University. He is retired as an analyst at the U.S. Department of Defense and lives in Manchester, New Hampshire.

• Table of ContentsTranslators’ Preface      Introduction to the 1961 Edition      1. The Merciless Summer of 1939      2. And That Day Arrived      3. “Invitation” to a Meeting      4. Górna Grupa      5. To Gdan´sk      6. In the Hell of Stutthof      7. The Butchers of Stutthof      8. Miserere      9. A Hunger for Freedom      10. Holy Week 1940      11. Ethnic Germans      12. Grenzdorf      13. Here You Have to Work      14. Satan’s Program      15. What Will Become of Us?      16. Sachsenhausen      17. The First Days      18. No Changes in Sachsenhausen      19. One-Eyed Fritz      20. In the Valley of Jehoshaphat      21. A Chapel in the Death Camp      22. The Stream of Time Was Flowing      23. Roll Call      24. The Last Days      25. A Holy Shipment      26. The Sanitarium in Dachau      27. Snow      28. The Year 1941 Approaches      29. When on Candlemas Day All Was Covered with Snow      30. Allow Us to Work      31. The Second Freiland      32. “Joyful Privileges”      33. The Reverend Bishop      34. September 15, 1941      35. The Fence Fell and with It the Privileges      36. A Memorable Transport      37. Zdzich’s Hanka      38. Now You’ll Rot in Dachau!      39. The Mountain Girl with Little Thérèse’s Face      40. The Dismal Beginning of 1942      41. Holy Week 1942      42. Polish Priests Build a Crematorium      43. Three Hundred Polish Priests to the Gas Chambers      44. Guinea Pigs      45. At the Turning Point of 1942      46. My Mother’s Brother      47. They Would Have Survived      48. Autumn of 1942      49. Goebbels and the Catholic Nuns      50. The Year 1943      51. At the Turning Point of 1943      52. Autumn of 1943      53. The Nazi Nero      54. Spring of 1944      55. The Fruitful Summer of 1944      56. The Nun Barbara      57. A Diary      58. At the Dawn of 1945      59. The Last Month      60. The Last Sunday      Epilogue      Chapter Notes      Sources      Index