BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:\n\nA\nPolish Doctor in the Nazi Camps”: Reflections on Narrati ve\, History\, and Memory\nin Intimate Ethnography\n\n \;\n\nOver\nthe past fourteen years\, I have been involved in a project that resulted in the\nrecent publication of a book titled\, A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Cam ps: My\nMother’s Memories of Imprisonment\, Immigration\, and a Life Remad e (University\nof Oklahoma Press\, 2014). My approach integrates anthropol ogical life history\nand ethnographic methods with world history\, memory\ , and literary craft. The\nresult is an “intimate ethnography” focused on my mother’s experiences during\nWorld War II and how they shaped her subse quent life\, both as a woman and as a\nphysician. Jadwiga Lenartowicz Rylk o was a young Polish Catholic physician at\nthe start of the war. Arrested by the Gestapo on suspicion of resistance\nactivities\, she endured three concentration camps and a 42-day death march.\nDuring much of her impriso nment\, she served as a prisoner-doctor in Jewish\nslave labor camps. I al so examine the aftermath of these wartime\nexperiences—how one “survives s urvival\,” picking up the pieces of a shattered\npast and remaking a life— as a refugee doctor in Germany and later\, as an\nimmigrant in the United States. I will also discuss the ways in which I\nembedded family narrative in broader frames of political economy and\nsocio-historical context—thus giving meaning beyond the personal\, and reflect\non some of the challeng es of this kind of research and writing.Dr. Barbara Rylko-Bauer is an auth or and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Michigan State \;University.Co-sponsored by the Department of His tory and Jewish Studies DTEND:20160303T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260512T222134Z DTSTART:20160303T210000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Department of Anthropology Speaker Series presents: Barbara Rylko-B auer UID:RFCALITEM639142068940634508 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

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A\nPolish Doctor i n the Nazi Camps”: Reflections on Narrative\, History\, and Memory\nin Int imate Ethnography

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Over\nthe past fourte en years\, I have been involved in a project that resulted in the\nrecent publication of a book titled\, A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps: My\nMoth er’s Memories of Imprisonment\, Immigration\, and a Life Remade (Universit y\nof Oklahoma Press\, 2014). My approach integrates anthropological life history\nand ethnographic methods with world history\, memory\, and litera ry craft. The\nresult is an “intimate ethnography” focused on my mother’s experiences during\nWorld War II and how they shaped her subsequent life\, both as a woman and as a\nphysician. Jadwiga Lenartowicz Rylko was a youn g Polish Catholic physician at\nthe start of the war. Arrested by the Gest apo on suspicion of resistance\nactivities\, she endured three concentrati on camps and a 42-day death march.\nDuring much of her imprisonment\, she served as a prisoner-doctor in Jewish\nslave labor camps. I also examine t he aftermath of these wartime\nexperiences—how one “survives survival\,” p icking up the pieces of a shattered\npast and remaking a life—as a refugee doctor in Germany and later\, as an\nimmigrant in the United States. I wi ll also discuss the ways in which I\nembedded family narrative in broader frames of political economy and\nsocio-historical context—thus giving mean ing beyond the personal\, and reflect\non some of the challenges of this k ind of research and writing.


Dr. Barbara Rylko-Bauer is a n author and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropol ogy at the Michigan State \;University.


Co-sponsored by the Department of History and Jewish Studies

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