AND WHO WILL KILL YOU : THE CHRONICLE OF THE LIFE AND SUFFERINGS OF PRIESTS IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS / by Bedrich Hoffmann ; [translated (ID: 31376)
Authorship or Source:
Hoffmann, Bedrich.
Year:
1994
Title or Main Description:
AND WHO WILL KILL YOU : THE CHRONICLE OF THE LIFE AND SUFFERINGS OF PRIESTS IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS / by Bedrich Hoffmann ; [translated by John L. Morkovsky].
Place Published or Holding Institution:
Pozna´n : Pallottinum
Description:
- 580 p., [4] p. of plates : ports. ; 21 cm.
- Number of Names or Other Entries-- 1213
Edition:
4th ed.
Type of Work:
Book
Alternate or Series Title:
A kdo vás zabije. English
ISBN or ISSN:
8370142230
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
USHMM Library: Reference--Name Lists [D804.5.P75 H64 1994].
Provenance:
Gathered from the first person experiences of the author, who was himself detained in Buchenwald and Dachau from 1940 to 1945, and official Nazi records and name lists gathered from Dachau. Any incomplete or false records were corrected by the author from his personal knowledge and experience.
Keywords:
- Dachau (Concentration camp) --Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Registers of dead --Germany --Dachau.
- Jews --Relations with Christians.
- Catholics.
- Clergy.
- Priests --Nazi persecution.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Personal narratives, Czech.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Prisoners and prisons.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Religious aspects --Catholic Church.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Personal narratives, Czech.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Atrocities.
Abstract:
- A memorial of priests of 17 nationalities who survived or perished in the Nazi concentration camps.
- "[...] describes the life of priests in the ill-famed German concentration camp of Dachau in Bavaria and in some other camps."--P.[17]. Biographical information includes last name, first name, numbers assigned by the Nazis in internment, date and place of birth, parish or diocese, date of arrest, date and destination of deportation, and location throughout war. The lists are broken down by nationality, denomination, and 'grounds for arrest.'
Language and Other Notes:
- Text in English.
- Translation of: A kdo vás zabije.
Resource Center Cataloging Notes:
- Former Q&A Name Lists Database File Number-- AA0239
- Registry Document File EE1771 contains title page, publication informatin page, table of contents, acknowlegdements, foreword, introduction, and example of name list. Book was donated to library by Rev. Benton A. Thurmond, Editor.