A Physician Under the Nazis

Memoirs of Henry Glenwick

Foreword by Thane Rosenbaum Edited by David Glenwick

Publication date:

02 December 2010

Length of book:

90 pages

Publisher

Hamilton Books

ISBN-13: 9780761851363

A Physician Under the Nazis are the memoirs of the first forty years (1909-1948) of the life of Henry Glenwick. It focuses on his experiences as a physician in Russian-occupied Ukraine after the outbreak of World War II, his return to the Warsaw ghetto, and his subsequent journey through labor and concentration camps in Poland and Germany. Following a post-war period in Displaced Persons camps in Germany, the book concludes with the writer's cross-Atlantic trip to New York and the beginnings of his life in the United States. This memoir provides the rarely-heard perspective on the Holocaust of a Jewish physician who served both Russian and German occupiers during the war.

Chapter 1 Foreword by Thane Rosenbaum
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 A Childhood in Warsaw
Chapter 5 2. My Education After High School
Chapter 6 3. Marriage and Family
Chapter 7 4. The Outbreak of War and the Flight East
Chapter 8 5. A Physician Under the Russians
Chapter 9 6. The German Occupation
Chapter 10 7. Return to Warsaw
Chapter 11 8. In the Ghetto
Chapter 12 9. To the Camps
Chapter 13 10. In the Camps: Budzyn and Radom
Chapter 14 11.Vaihingen, Dachau, and the Road to Liberation
Chapter 15 12. After Liberation: In Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Stuttgart
Chapter 16 13. Beginning Anew in America
Chapter 17 Epilogue
Chapter 18 Afterword: A Son's Reflections on His Father's Memoirs and the Holocaust
Chapter 19 Appendix A: Chronology of Major Places in the Life of Henry Glenwick from 1909 to 1948
Chapter 20 Appendix B: Map of Places Visited by Henry Glenwick, 1939 to 1946
Chapter 21 Appendix C: Genealogy of the Gliniewiecki, Schulweis, and Rosenfein Families

Written with clinical precision, Henry Glenwick's memoirs provide particularly valuable insight…At each stop he candidly diagnoses the key contacts and privileges that gave him a chance at survival.