Wartime Rescue of Jews by the Polish Catholic Clergy

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Many additional testimonies and descriptions of assistance by the Catholic clergy can be found in the following publications:

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  Bartoszewski, Władysław, and Zofia Lewin, eds. Righteous Among Nations: How Poles Helped the Jews, 1939–1945. London: Earlscourt Publications, 1969. Especially at pages 329–62. (See also pp.lxxxii–lxxxiv, 13–15, 18, 50–52, 61, 86–87, 107, 130, 132, 150–53, 167, 169–70, 173, 201–202, 216, 233, 254, 259–60, 270, 277–80, 295, 306–308, 374, 384–85, 396, 397, 399–401, 404–409, 415–17, 459, 479, 493, 512–17, 522–23, 588–90.) A significantly abridged version of this book was published in the United States as The Samaritans: Heroes of the Holocaust (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1970).
  
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  Bogner, Nahum. At the Mercy of Strangers: The Rescue of Jewish Children with Assumed Identities in Poland. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009.
  
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  Bogner, Nahum. “The Convent Children: The Rescue of Jewish Children in Polish Convents During the Holocaust.” Yad Vashem Studies. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Rememberance Authority, 1999. Volume 27: pp.235–85.
  
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  Chwajko, Grzegorz. “The Clergy of the Archdiocese of Lviv [Lwów] of the Latins in Aid of the Jewish Nation during the Years of the German Occupation from 1941–1944: An Outline of the Events.” The Person and the Challenges, volume 3 (2013), no. 2: pp.143–55.
  
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  Gilbert, Martin. The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust. Toronto: Key Porter, 2003. Especially at pages 1–180.
  
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  Gutenbaum, Jakub, and Agnieszka Latała, eds. The Last Eyewitnesses: Children of the Holocaust Speak. Volume 2. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2005.
  
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  Gutman, Israel, and Sara Bender, eds. The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. Volumes 4 & 5: Poland, 2 parts. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2004.
  
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  Gutman, Israel, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust: Supplementary Volumes (2000–2005). Volumes II (The Netherlands–United States). Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2010.
  
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  Kłoczowski, Jerzy. “The Religious Orders and the Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland,” Polin: A Journal of Polish-Jewish Studies. Oxford: Basil Blackwell for the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, 1988. Volume 3: pp.238–43.
  
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  Kurek-Lesik, Ewa. “The Conditions of Admittance and the Social Background of Jewish Children Saved by Women’s Religious Orders in Poland From 1939–1945,” Polin: A Journal of Polish-Jewish Studies. Oxford: Basil Blackwell for the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, 1988. Volume 3: pp.244–75.
  
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  Kurek-Lesik, Ewa. “The Role of Polish Nuns in the Rescue of Jews, 1939–1945.” In Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism, edited by Pearl M. Oliner, Samuel P. Oliner, Lawrence Baron, Lawrence A. Blum, Dennis L. Krebs, and Zuzanna M. Smolenska. New York; New York University Press, 1992. Pp.328–34.
  
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  Kurek, Ewa. Your Life Is Worth Mine: How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German Occupied Poland, 1939–1945. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997. Especially at pages 139–204. Kurek identifies 53 orders of nuns who rescued no fewer than 1,200 Jewish children in almost 200 convents and institutions.
  
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  Rączy, Elżbieta, and Igor Witowicz. Poles Rescuing Jews in the Rzeszów Region in the Years 1939–1945 / Polacy ratujący Żydów na Rzeszowszczyźnie w latach 1939–1945. Rzeszów: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, 2011. Especially at pages 164–197.
  
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  Śliwowska, Wiktoria, ed. The Last Eyewitnesses: Children of the Holocaust Speak. Volume 1. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1998.
  
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  Zieliński, Zygmunt. “Activities of Catholic Orders on Behalf of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland.” In Judaism and Christianity Under the Impact of National Socialism, edited by Otto Dov Kulka and Paul R. Mendes-Flohr. Jerusalem: The Historical Society of Israel and The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 1987. Pp.381–94.
  

Important Polish-language sources include:

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  Bartoszewski, Władysław, and Zofia Lewinówna, eds. Ten jest z ojczyzny mojej: Polacy z pomocą Żydom 1939–1945. Second revised and expanded edition. Kraków: Znak, 1969. This volume is more comprehensive than the two English-language versions noted above and contains numerous additional examples of clergy rescue. See also Władysław Bartoszewski and Zofia Lewinówna, eds. Ten jest z ojczyzny mojej: Polacy z pomocą Żydom 1939–1945. Fourth revised edition. Kraków: Znak, 2010.
  
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  Draus, Jan, and Jan Musiał, eds. Diecezja przemyska w latach 1939–1945. Volume 3: Zakony. Przemyśl, 1990.
  
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  Frącek, Teresa Antonietta. “Ratowały, choć za to groziła śmierć,” 6 parts. Nasz Dziennik, March 8–9, March 12, March 15–16, March 19, March 26, April 4, 2008.
  
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  Grynberg, Michał. Księga sprawiedliwych. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1993.
  
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  Gutenbaum, Jakub, and Agnieszka Latała, eds. Dzieci Holocaustu mówią… Volume 2. Warsaw: Stowarzyszenie “Dzieci Holocaustu” w Polsce, 2001.
  
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  Jacewicz, Wiktor, and Jan Woś. Martyrologium polskiego duchowieństwa rzymskokatolickiego pod okupacją hitlerowską w latach 1939–1945. 5 volumes. Warsaw: Akademia Teologii Katolickiej, 1977–1981.
  
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  Kącki, Franciszek. Udział księży i zakonnic w holokauście Żydów. Second revised and expanded edition. Warsaw: Adiutor, 2002. First edition: Dzieło miłosierdzia chrześcijańskiego: Polskie duchowieństwo katolickie a Żydzi w latach okupacji hitlerowskiej. Warsaw: Chrześcijańskie Stowarzyszenie Społeczne, 1968.
  
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  Kołacińska-Gałązka, Anna, ed. Dzieci Holocaustu mówią... Volume 5. Warsaw: Stowarzyszenie “Dzieci Holocaustu” w Polsce, 2013.
  
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