The Stanley M. Garstka personal papers contain two letters, a personal reflection, and the article Poland's Way of the cross 1939-1945 by Franciszek J. Proch.

Dr. Stanisław (Stanley) Garstka was born in Warsaw on Feb. 22, 1916. In 1935 he began medical studies, which he did not complete because of the outbreak of the Second World War. Imprisoned for his underground activities in 1941, Garstka experienced Pawiak prison and then concentration camps of Auschwitz, Neuengamme, Dachau, where he was transferred to Flossenbürg camp, and from there to Leitmeritz (subcamp) where while a prisoner Garstka assisted the doctor of the camp. After liberation, he migrated to the American zone, and by 1947 he had completed his medical studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He married Martha Alszibaja, and in 1949, they emigrated to the United States. The Garstkas settled in Riverside, California. Dr. Garstka is the founder of the American Polish Research Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. He initiated the exchange program between the University of Gdańsk and Notre Dame in 1999. Stanley Garstka passed away on June 21, 2006.

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