Author: Kurek, Ewa; Author: Kurek-Lesik, Ewa
Paperback; Map
255 pages
Published: January 1996
Hippocrene Books, Inc
ISBN: 0781804094
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The story, never told before, of how Polish nuns in World War II saved hundreds of Jewish lives while risking their own.Reconstructs the history of WWII rescues through extensive interviews with nuns and with many of the Jewish children who were saved. The story is told here for the first time, because in post-war years Communist rulers of Soviet-dominated Poland were at odds with the Catholic Church, and suppressed