Domagala, Jan; Archbishop's Documentation Center for Church Affairs

TWO POLISH ROMAN CATHOLIC WWII BOOKS: CI, KTÓRZY PRZESZLI PRZEZ DACHAU... [AND] SPIS 1996 KSIĘŻY POLSKICH...

Warszawa: Pax/Archbishop's Documentation Center for Church Affairs, 1957/1953. CI, KTÓRZY PRZESZLI PRZEZ DACHAU (DUCHOWNI W DACHAU): Domagala, Jan, Warszawa: Pax, 1957 Octavo, 391 pages. In Good minus condition. Bound in original wraps, covered in aluminum foil. Front gutter open.

Note taped to front free endpaper: "From American Ambassador Lodge / Warszawa." Book description also taped to front free endpaper. Text block shows some markings in blue ink, primarily check marks, mostly to the section on "Rzymsko-Katolicy" (Roman Catholics) and "Duchowni Innych Narodowošci" (Clergy of Other Nationalities).

INDEX 1996 SACERDOTUM POLONORUM A GERMANIS AA.1939-1945 OCCISORUM / SPIS 1996 KSIĘŻY POLSKICH ZABITYCH W LATACH 1939-1945 PRZEZ NIEMCÓW (LIST OF 1996 POLISH PRIESTS KILLED IN 1939-1945 BY GERMANY): Wykonano w Arcybiskupim Ośrodku Dokumentacji dla Spraw Kościoła w Polsce w listopadzie 1953 r. w nakładzie 200 egzemplarzy (nr.3) (Made at the Archbishop's Documentation Center for Church Affairs in Poland in November 1953 with a circulation of 200 copies (No. 3)).

Octavo, 67 leaves. In Good minus condition. In original wraps, covered in aluminum foil. Front gutter open. typed linguistic note in German/Polish taped to title page. Nearly all names are marked with a blue ink checkmark, with some also marked with a pencil "x."

NOTE: Shelved in Room G.

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Price: $2,000

NOTES

Working copies from the Claiborne Pell estate. Both books have markings that show that they may have been used to identify Polish priests massacred by the Germans. In clandestine bindings, these copies are presumed to have assisted Pell in his work as Vice President of the International Rescue Committee. Stationed in Austria, he was responsible for assisting refugees from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 to leave the country and resettle. An alternate theory is that Pell used these books as research in his endless quest to find facts in the past of his stepfather, Hugo W. Koehler. Koehler served as an Office of Naval Intelligence and State Department operative in Russia during its civil war, and later as naval attaché to Poland. He was rumored to be the illegitimate son of the Crown Prince of Austria and to have assisted the Romanovs in fleeing Russia following the revolution of 1917.

"As of November 1, 1944, the "first camp writer [clerk]" for the Lagerschreibstube was Dachau prisoner Jan Domagala...In the days before Dachau was liberated on April 29, 1945, these prisoners hid the original records from camp authorities to save them from destruction."[Suzanne Brown-Fleming, Nazi Persecution and Postwar Repercussions]