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Memoir of a Polish Priest – The War with Germany – Jerusalem, 1941

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Szlakiem krwi i łez, wspomnienia i przeżycia z wojny polsko-niemieckiej, X. Leon Łomiński [Trail of blood and tears, memories and experiences of the Polish-German war, by Leon Łomiński]. Jerusalem: Gesher, 1941. Polish.
Memoir of a Polish priest who joined the Polish army with the outbreak of World War II, after Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Priest Luminsky, born in 1891, studied Christian Archeology at the Lublin University; after years of serving as a community priest, he joined the Polish army and served as a military priest. This book describes his military service and includes several photographs.
The book was published in Jerusalem, to which Luminsky presumably came as a war-refugee, in 1940 or 1941.
[6], 180, [2] pp. + [15] photographic plates, 19 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. The book is slightly distorted (soft binding). Some small tears to binding; missing pieces in the spine. Pencil notations in several places in the book.
Holocaust and She'erit Hapletah
Holocaust and She'erit Hapletah