Jadwiga Lenartowicz Rylko, known as Jadzia (Yah -jah), was a young Polish Catholic physician in Lodz at the start of World War II. "A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps "follows Jadzia from her childhood and medical training, through her wartime.
For the next fifteen months, she endured three Nazi concentration camps and a forty-two-day death march, spending part of this time working as a prisoner-Doctor to Jewish slave laborers.
Suspected of resistance activities, she was arrested in January 1944.
Jadwiga Lenartowicz Rylko, known as Jadzia (Yah -jah), was a young Polish Catholic physician in Lodz at the start of World War II