Michelangelo in Ravensbruck : One Woman's War Against the Nazis

by Lanckoronska, Karolina

• ISBN13: 9780306815379
• ISBN10: 0306815370
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-26
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

"While the human dimension of the Holocaust has been made indelibly vivid through a body of powerful personal testimony, the other aspects of the Polish war are known, at best, as remote history. Lanckoronska's narrative, written mostly during the war years, gives us rare insight into some of that history's complexities, even as it introduces us to a fascinating story and an extraordinary personality." Book jacket.

Author Biography

Countess Karolina Lanckoronska (1898-2002) survived imprisonment and after the war lived in Rome, where she devoted herself to art history and to Polish culture and learning.

Table of Contents

Translator's Acknowledgement	p. vii
List of Illustrations	p. viii
Map: The Partition of Poland in 1939	p. x
Note on Pronunciation	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xvii
Prologue by the Author	p. xxv
Lwow (22 September 1939-3 May 1940)	p. 1
Krakow (May 1940-June 1941)	p. 40
On Tour in the 'General Government' (July 1941-March 1942)	p. 78
Stanislawow (March 1942-7 July 1942)	p. 114
The Lacki Street Prison in Lwow (8 July 1942-28 November 1942)	p. 245
Berlin (29 November 1942-9 January-1943)	p. 182
Ravensbruck (9 January 1943-5 April 1945)	p. 194
Italy	p. 287
Epilogue	p. 291
Appendices	p. 295
Names of the Lwow professors murdered by Kruger
Letter from SS General Ernst Kaltenbrunner to the President of the International Red Cross
Biographical Notes
Notes	p. 317
Index of Names	p. 333
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