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A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps - My Mother's Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade (Paperback)
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A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps - My Mother's Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade (Paperback)
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Jadwiga Lenartowicz Rylko, known as Jadzia (Yah'-jah), was a young
Polish Catholic physician in Lodz at the start of World War II.
Suspected of resistance activities, she was arrested in January
1944. For the next fifteen months, she endured three Nazi
concentration camps and a forty-two-day death march, spending part
of this time working as a prisoner-doctor to Jewish slave laborers.
A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps follows Jadzia from her childhood
and medical training, through her wartime experiences, to her
struggles to create a new life in the postwar world. Jadzia's
daughter, anthropologist Barbara Rylko-Bauer, constructs an
intimate ethnography that weaves a personal family narrative
against a twentieth-century historical backdrop. As Rylko-Bauer
travels back in time with her mother, we learn of the particular
hardships that female concentration camp prisoners faced. The
struggle continued after the war as Jadzia attempted to rebuild her
life, first as a refugee doctor in Germany and later as an
immigrant to the United States. Like many postwar immigrants,
Jadzia had high hopes of making new connections and continuing her
career. Unable to surmount personal, economic, and social obstacles
to medical licensure, however, she had to settle for work as a
nurse's aide. As a contribution to accounts of wartime experiences,
Jadzia's story stands out for its sensitivity to the complexities
of the Polish memory of war. Built upon both historical research
and conversations between mother and daughter, the story combines
Jadzia's voice and Rylko-Bauer's own journey of rediscovering her
family's past. The result is a powerful narrative about struggle,
survival, displacement, and memory, augmenting our understanding of
a horrific period in human history and the struggle of Polish
immigrants in its aftermath.
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