Saving Children

Saving Children
Author: Jack Werber
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 141285430X

In Saving Children, Jack Werber describes in detail what life in Buchenwald was like, painting a haunting picture of his daily struggle for survival. But Werber did more than survive; he made saving children his special mission. In what is one of the most amazing stories of the Holocaust, Jack Werber helped to save the lives of some seven hundred Jewish children who had arrived at Buchenwald in late 1944, including Nobel Prize-winner Elie Wiesel and Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, former Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel. At great personal risk, he arranged for the children to be hidden in various barracks with false working papers. He and his group actually started a school where the children studied Jewish history, music, and Hebrew. These activities gave the youngsters hope that they might survive and ultimately most of them did. Werber’s entire family—his wife, daughter, parents, and seven siblings—were all murdered by the Nazis. "There was no reason to go on," he had thought, but seeing the children transformed his outlook. He resolved to prevent them from meeting his daughter’s fate. Out of 3,200 Polish prisoners who entered the camp together with Werber, only eleven were alive by war’s end. Of those, he was the only Jew.

Survivor of Buchenwald

Survivor of Buchenwald
Author: Louis Gros
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-02-08
Genre: Nazi concentration camp inmates
ISBN: 9781934980750

I was only seventeen years old when the knock on the door came late one night. The French police barged in, arresting me and my father as members of the French Resistance. After months of incarceration in French prisons, two thousand inmates were jammed into twenty rail cars. Our destination was Buchenwald, the most horrific camp in Nazi Germany, where we were viewed by our SS keepers as expendable sub-humans and forced to work as slave laborers. I was beaten and starved. I witnessed brutal tortures and senseless murders. But I survived.

Boy from Buchenwald

Boy from Buchenwald
Author: Robbie Waisman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1547606010

It was 1945 and Romek Wajsman had just been liberated from Buchenwald, a brutal concentration camp where more than 60,000 people were killed. He was starving, tortured, and had no idea where his family was-let alone if they were alive. Along with 472 other boys, including Elie Wiesel, these teens were dubbed “The Buchenwald Boys.” They were angry at the world for their abuse, and turned to violence: stealing, fighting, and struggling for power. Everything changed for Romek and the other boys when Albert Einstein and Rabbi Herschel Schacter brought them to a home for rehabilitation Romek Wajsman, now Robbie Waisman, humanitarian and Canadian governor general award recipient, shares his remarkable story of transforming pain into resiliency and overcoming incredible loss to find incredible joy. Finalist for the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction Winner of the 2022 the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize

Saving Children

Saving Children
Author: Jack Werber
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351492098

In Saving Children, Jack Werber describes in detail what life in Buchenwald was like, painting a haunting picture of his daily struggle for survival. But Werber did more than survive; he made saving children his special mission. In what is one of the most amazing stories of the Holocaust, Jack Werber helped to save the lives of some seven hundred Jewish children who had arrived at Buchenwald in late 1944, including Nobel Prize-winner Elie Wiesel and Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, former Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel.At great personal risk, he arranged for the children to be hidden in various barracks with false working papers. He and his group actually started a school where the children studied Jewish history, music, and Hebrew. These activities gave the youngsters hope that they might survive and ultimately most of them did.Werber's entire family?his wife, daughter, parents, and seven siblings?were all murdered by the Nazis. "There was no reason to go on," he had thought, but seeing the children transformed his outlook. He resolved to prevent them from meeting his daughter's fate. Out of 3,200 Polish prisoners who entered the camp together with Werber, only eleven were alive by war's end. Of those, he was the only Jew.

The Children of Buchenwald

The Children of Buchenwald
Author: Judith Hemmendinger
Publisher: Gefen Publishing House Ltd
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2000
Genre: Holocaust survivors
ISBN: 9789652292469

Some of the 426 child survivors of Buchenwald tell their stories, from their lives in the camp, their liberation, and their struggle for normalcy and emotional well-being.

Beyond the Last Path

Beyond the Last Path
Author: Eugene Weinstock
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2014-10-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781502850614

Beyond the Last Path: A Buchenwald Survivor's Story, first published in 1947, is the first-hand account by Eugene Weinstock, a Hungarian Jew who was imprisoned by the Nazis in World War Two at the Buchenwald concentration/extermination camp in Germany. The book is a simply told, yet profoundly moving account of his arrest and imprisonment at the infamous camp, where the cremation ovens operated virtually non-stop. Weinstock attributes his survival, in part, to the strong underground organization within the camp, which helped maintain order and distribute supplies equitably. The book concludes with the liberation of the prison by US troops, at which time, Weinstock weighed a mere 80 pounds.

A Fighter Pilot in Buchenwald

A Fighter Pilot in Buchenwald
Author: Joseph F. Moser
Publisher: All Clear Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Fighter pilots
ISBN: 9780615221113

On August 13, 1944, during his 44th combat mission, Joe Moser's P-38 Lightning was shot down. Captured by Nazi forces, he and his fellow group of Allied fliers were scheduled for execution as terrorfliegers and shipped in overcrowded cattle cars to Buchenwaldthe infamous work camp where tens of thousands died of cruelty, medical experiments, and starvation. Once a simple farm boy focused on sports and his dream to fly the fastest, meanest fighter plane, Moser now faced some of the worst of Hitler s ghastly system. From the harrowing and sometimes hilarious experiences of flight training to the dehumanization at the hands of Hitler s SS, this is a story of quiet, steady courage sustained by faith, family, and the commitment to freedom and liberty in even the most desperate of circumstances."

Abe's Story

Abe's Story
Author: Abram Korn
Publisher: Createspace Indie Pub Platform
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781466490390

Abe Korn was only 16 when the Nazis invaded his hometown of Lipno, Poland, on the first day of World War II. He survived the entire war as a Jewish prisoner, enduring two Nazi ghettos, eight concentration camps, and a 45-day Death March from Auschwitz. Astonishingly, Abe kept his sense of human dignity- with gangrenous feet he struggled to stay on the healthy workers list; with scan supplies he bargained for food and coal and helped others survive. Abe never gave up hope. He always believed he could live one more day, and on April 11, 1945, when Buchenwald was liberated, Abe was finally free. After Liberation, Abe focused on going to school and earning a living. Eventually, as a man earnest to forgive past sins and take individuals at face value, he married a German Lutheran, who later converted to Judaism. They moved to the United States, where Abe had a remarkably successful business. Abram Korn died in 1972. Abe left the rough draft of a manuscript of his story. Twenty years after his death, Abe's son, Joey began completing his father's story and the First Edition of Abe's Story was published by Longstreet Press on April 11th, 1995, the fiftieth anniversary of Abe's liberation. The current edition is published by Sugarcreek Press. To the family he raised proudly in the Jewish tradition, Abe left a legacy of powerful inspiration. For modern-day readers seeking the best in Holocaust literature and riveting drama, Abe's Story is an incredible story of hope, of the human potential to do good in the face of horrible evil. Abe's Story is about hope, not despair. It's about life, not death. It's a powerful source of inspiration for a all who read it. "Important testimony." ¬- Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Price Laureate and author of Night. "Powerful. Unforgettable. Abe's Story is an inspiration to all who read it." - Pat Conroy, author of Prince of Tides and Beach Music. "An extraordinary memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, whose son rescued the manuscript from oblivion." - John Stoessinger, Trinity University, author of Might of Nations and Why Nations Go to War.'

Survivor of Buchenwald

Survivor of Buchenwald
Author: Louis Gros
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Concentration camp inmates
ISBN: 9781934980743

"I was only seventeen years old when the knock on our door came late one night. The French police barged in, arresting me and my father as members of the French Resistance. After months of incarceration in French prisons, two thousand inmates were jammed into twenty rail cars. Our destination was Buchenwald, the most horrific camp in Nazi Germany, where we were viewed by our SS keepers as expendable sub-humans and forced to work as slave laborers. I was beaten and starved. I witnessed brutal tortures and senseless murders. But I survived."--Excerpt provided by publisher.

Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Death March, and I Smiled

Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Death March, and I Smiled
Author: Carlee Orman
Publisher: AJS
Total Pages: 55
Release:
Genre: History
ISBN:

Eddie Jaku was one among the few thousands who miraculously survived the death camps. When Eddie first entered Auschwitz, he was only a 20-year-old. He didn’t have a name or identity for the next seven years he spent in the notorious death camp. His entire personality, individuality, and identity were relegated to a 6 digit number-172338. Now, 100-year-old, Eddie is anything but bitter or remorse. On the contrary, he is the self-proclaimed happiest man on earth. Eddie remembers vividly how he was crammed into the barracks, made to sleep on the wooden planks, ten men in a single row, with not a stich on any of them. Eddie didn’t know if he would survive the night, let alone live to a centenarian. His survival is hinged on a message he said to himself, repeatedly, religiously reminding himself that if he could hold on to live just another minute, another hour, another day, then, the pain, the deprivation, the agony would end and tomorrow would dawn with rays of hope. Eddie remembered clearly how on some nights when sleep overcame his tediously overworked body and mental exhaustion caused him to slip into a trance, waking to the screams of fellow Jews who could no longer take the drudgery and ran themselves into the electrified barbed fence. Their screams were bone-chilling and he shuddered to remember those odious nights. There were nights when Eddie was tempted badly to join them and put an abrupt end to the morass of misery he was in. but something kept him from taking that step. Once, he did try to escape, but the failed attempt resulted in a bullet wound in his leg. This book is not just about Eddie Jaku, it is about the millions of Jews who were killed mercilessly and what they went through during the Second World War. It is about Eddie Jaku, Eva Mozes, Victor Frankl, and many more whose names have not been mentioned, but this book is also their story. This book attempts to explore the reasons, causes, and an analysis of the Holocaust.