War in the shadow of Auschwitz : memoirs of a Polish resistance fighter and survivor of the death camps

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Category: Books
Related period: Second World War (content), Second World War (content)
Creator: WIERNICKI, JOHN (Author)
RELIGION, THEOLOGY AND THE HOLOCAUST (Author)
Syracuse University Press (Publisher)
Production date: 2001
Place made: Syracuse, New York
Dimensions: whole: Dimensions: 24cm., Pagination: xv, 273p., 10p. of plates: ill., facsim., plan, ports.
Catalogue number: LBY 06 / 2453

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