HE WHO SAVES ONE LIFE: The Complete, Documented Story Of The Poles Who Struggled To Save Jews During World War Two. Foreword By Dr. Joseph L. Lichten

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light green cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. few faint spots on foredge, other edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in near fine cond. minor chipping at spine top, minor soiling on rear, not torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (NAP). xvi+336p. notes. index. world war ii. nazi germany. third reich. biography. history of poland. jewish history.~As soon as the Nazis entered Poland in 1939, they began a wholesale persecution of the Jewish population. Jews were systematically harassed and persecuted, their property confiscated, their movements restricted. By the time the Warsaw ghetto was organized, it was evident that the Germans intended nothing short of the extermination of the entire Jewish population of Poland. Yet there were many Polish citizens who actively opposed the German butchery and risked their lives and the lives of their families to come to the aid of the Jews. In HE WHO SAVES ONE LIFE, Kazimierz lranek~Osmecki, a former colonel in the Polish army and a witness to the tragic events of the occupation, tells the remarkable and chilling story of the efforts of these Polish citizens to save the lives of their persecuted countrymen. Beginning with a brief history of the Jews in Poland, lranek~Osmecki describes, in unprecedented detail, the organization of the Polish resistance: the smuggling of food into the ghettos, the evolution of the underground press, the development of paramilitary fighting forces inside and outside the ghetto walls, the heroic work of the Polish government in exile, and the mobilization for the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Aside from depicting conditions in the cities of Poland, he also describes the human aspects of the holocaust~how Jews were hidden and cared for in small towns and villages, and even in forests, by Poles who were eventually murdered for their efforts by the Germans. HE WHO SAVES ONE LIFE is starkly documented by official dispatches and documents drawn from many previously unpublished sources~newspapers, findings of government investigations, government bulletins from Poland, reports from the Jewish National Committee and the Council for Aid to Jews, pamphlets from the Polish Ministry of Information, and underground press publications, as well as eyewitness accounts from Jews in the ghettos, members of the Polish underground, public officials, and the many Jews who escaped with the aid of Poles. Colonel lranek~Osmecki brings the tragedy of the Jews in Poland conclusively to light, with the understanding and compassion of one who has lived through those shocking events. As he says, "One who has not actually lived through or witnessed this nightmare can never understand the horror the Jews faced." HE WHO SAVES ONE LIFE is a tribute to the heroic Poles who lived through the nightmare and saved not one, but countless lives. During World War II, KAZIMIERZ IRANEK~OSMECKI was a colonel in the Home Department of the military staff of the Polish government in exile in London. Twice during the war ~in 1941 and again in 1943~he was sent as an emissary to Poland. While in Poland, he served in the Department of Intelligence and Information of the high command of the Polish Home Army. In this capacity, he was responsible for carrying out an investigation into the presence of German V~2 rockets in Poland. He eventually discovered the whereabouts of the rockets and sent pieces of them back to London. In 1944, he participated in the Polish uprising, and, at the conclusion of the war, was chairman of the delegation that signed the armistice with the Germans. Since the war, he has lived in London and written numerous books on military~historical subjects. N° de ref. del artículo 2022102

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