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Author Andrzejewski, Jerzy, 1909-1983.

Title Holy Week : a novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising / Jerzy Andrzejewski ; introduction and commentary by Oscar E. Swan ; foreword by Jan Gross
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 149 pages) : illustrations
Series Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series
Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series.
Summary At the height of the Nazi extermination campaign in the Warsaw Ghetto, a young Jewish woman, Irena, seeks the protection of her former lover, a young architect, Jan Malecki. By taking her in, he puts his own life and the safety of his family at risk. Over a four-day period, Tuesday through Friday of Holy Week 1943, as Irena becomes increasingly traumatized by her situation, Malecki questions his decision to shelter Irena in the apartment where Malecki, his pregnant wife, and his younger brother reside. Added to his dilemma is the broader context of Poles' attitudes toward the "Jewish question
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-149)
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Subject FICTION -- General.
SUBJECT Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943 -- Fiction
Subject Poland -- Warsaw
Genre/Form Fiction
History
Form Electronic book
Author Swan, Oscar E
LC no. 2006024584
ISBN 9780821442203
0821442201
Other Titles Wielki Tydzień. English