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Diario di un'amicizia: La famiglia Półtawski e Karol Wojtyła
La vita di Wanda Poltawska, rinchiusa in un campo di concentramento e sottoposta a esperimenti medici, l'incontro con Karol Wojtyla che diverrà sua guida spirituale e amico fraterno, fino al punto di chiamarsi reciprocamente fratello e sorella. I lunghi campeggi trascorsi insieme a meditare, la malattia e la miracolosa guarigione, le riflessioni spirituali e il lungo carteggio tra i due. Wanda Poltawska è una delle persone che sono state più vicine a Giovanni Paolo II, lo ha ascoltato e consigliato, è stata presente nel momento della sua morte. Un ritratto intimo del grande papa polacco presto beato.
642 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2008
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Wanda Półtawska
23 books20 followersWanda Wiktoria Półtawska was a Polish physician, author, Holocaust survivor and pro-life activist.
Her memoir of the life and conditions for the women held in the camp has provided material for other books such as Ravensbrück: The Cell Building by Insa Eschebach. She had decided during her incarceration that if she survived she would become a doctor. She completed her medical studies at the Jagiellonian University in 1951 and obtained her doctorate in psychiatry in 1964. She conducted research on the so-called "Auschwitz children", people who had endured the concentration camps as children. In 1967, she organized the establishment of the Institute of Family Theology at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Kraków and managed it for 33 years. Between 1981 and 1984, she was a lecturer at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.
After her imprisonment, Półtawska developed a close friendship with Pope John Paul II during his priesthood, and remained friends with him until his death in 2005.
Her memoir of the life and conditions for the women held in the camp has provided material for other books such as Ravensbrück: The Cell Building by Insa Eschebach. She had decided during her incarceration that if she survived she would become a doctor. She completed her medical studies at the Jagiellonian University in 1951 and obtained her doctorate in psychiatry in 1964. She conducted research on the so-called "Auschwitz children", people who had endured the concentration camps as children. In 1967, she organized the establishment of the Institute of Family Theology at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Kraków and managed it for 33 years. Between 1981 and 1984, she was a lecturer at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.
After her imprisonment, Półtawska developed a close friendship with Pope John Paul II during his priesthood, and remained friends with him until his death in 2005.
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January 3, 2024
La primera parte del libro es muy valiosa, desde la búsqueda interior de Wanda, ayudada por los ejercicios espirituales de san JP II; sin embargo, es una historia que se pierde en el paisaje de la segunda parte, con cartas inconexas y discontinuas.
September 2, 2012
Read this in Italian, it is a very insightful book into the spiritual direction relationship between John Paul II and the Polish psychiatrist Wanda Poltawska.
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