Jadwiga Biskupska

Survivors

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Produktbeschreibung

Survivors tells the story of life in Nazi occupied Warsaw, a city that was ruthlessly and brutally targeted by Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1944. Jadwiga Biskupska traces how Germany set out to dismantle the Polish nation and state by targeting the Warsaw intelligentsia and explores the intelligentsia's resistance to Nazi occupation.

Produktdetails

• Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781009012508
• ISBN-10: 1009012509
• Artikelnr.: 70679309

Autorenporträt

Jadwiga Biskupska is Assistant Professor of History at Sam Houston State University in Hunstville, Texas. She is co-director of Second World War Research Group, North America (SWWRGNA) and a former fellow of the Mandel Center at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Warsaw besieged: September 1939
2. The killing years
3. Pawiak prison
4. The Warsaw ghetto: A people set apart
5. Information wars
6. School of hard knocks: Illegal education
7. Matters of faith: Catholic intelligentsia and the church
8. Spoiling for a fight: Armed opposition
9. Home army on the offensive: Violence in 1943-1944
Conclusion.