Product Description
by Terese Pencak Schwartz (Author)
A list and brief accounting of 700 Polish men, women and children that were killed while attempting to hide or take care of their Jewish neighbors. My great-uncle, Josef Gnidula, was one of them. He was shot and killed in his house in Majdan Nowy, in the Zamosc province in Poland on December 29, 1942 for sheltering a Jewish neighbor.
Author Biography
Born in Wildfecken, Germany, in a Displaced Persons camp created after World War II, Terese immigrated to the U.S.A. with her parents and sister when she was two years old. The family settled in Michigan, and she attended Michigan State University, where she studied journalism and communication arts. Terese moved to California in her early twenties, where she married and raised a family. Ms. Schwartz began doing research on non-Jewish Holocaust victims after she converted to Judaism. Other Books by Terese Pencak Schwartz: Holocaust Forgotten - Five Million Non-Jewish Victims (available in Polish and English) Missing Survivors - Searching for Family Lost in the Holocaust
