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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
PREFACE
Table Of Contents
PROLOGUE
AN UNUSUAL OFFER
ARREST: KRAKÓW 1942
PART 1: THE SECOND POLISH REPUBLIC: 1918–1939
Henry and I Begin
An Overview of Poland
Growing up in Kraków
St. Mary’s Church and Altarpiece
Happy Birthday, Henry
A Beautiful View
Cowboys and Indians
Karl May
Swimming Makes You Dumb
A Dinner Worth Ten Zlotys
The Beginning of the YMCA
Blind Marie
Helena Weiss
Freege Seed Company
The Jew Beaters at Park Jordana
Why Did People Hate the Jews?
PART 2: POLAND AT WAR: 1939–1942
September 1, 1939: Shock and Awe
Karol Wojtyla
Of Sugar and Mouse Droppings
PART 3: KL AUSCHWITZ, OŚWIĘCIM, POLAND: JUNE 1942–MARCH 1943
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here
The Beginning of Auschwitz
Prisoner 39551
Building Roads
Typhus
Collecting Rinde
Stay in the Middle
A Growing Friendship
Auschwitz in October 2013
Hunger
Kazio
The Frauenlager
Music in the Camp
Prisoner Mail, Packages and Money in Auschwitz
Letters from Auschwitz
The Camp Hospital
Promotion to Cook
Poland Will Never Die
The Beginning of Birkenau, or Auschwitz II
An Incoming Train of Jews
Death by Gunshot
Teddy Pietrzykowski
Boxing Matches
A Secret Murder Plot
The Stehebunker in Block 11
A Night of Swimming
PART 4: KL BUCHENWALD, WEIMAR, GERMANY: MARCH 1943–AUGUST 1944
Görlitz Train Station
Prisoner 10948
An Overview of Buchenwald
Henry’s Arrival at Buchenwald
Buchenwald Today
From the Stone Quarry to the Stonemason Kommando
The Goethe Oak Tree
Prisoner Movies, Theater, and Concerts
Prisoner Diversions
Prisoner Mail, Packages and Money in Buchenwald
The Puffhaus
The Americans Bomb Buchenwald
Bombing Aftermath
PART 5: KL BUCHENWALD, WEIMAR, GERMANY: JANUARY 1945–MAY 1945
The Buchenwald Crematorium
Provenance of Henry’s Grisly Photo
Evacuation of Buchenwald and the Dead March
Beloved Mother, I Am Alive
Two Near Misses
PART 6: POLAND UNDER COMMUNISM: 1946–1956
PART 7: THE UNITED STATES: LAND OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE RICH: 1958–1968
The S.S. America
“Now I Am a Therapist”
St. Barnabas Hospital for Chronic Diseases
Tremors and Brain Surgery
Henry Meets Nancy
Jerzy Kosinski
A Rich Life
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
APPENDIX A: ADDITIONAL CAMP CORRESPONDENCE OF HENRY ZGUDA
APPENDIX B: POLAND AFTER WORLD WAR II
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ADDITIONAL READING
AUTHOR BIO
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
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