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| Author | : Rebecca L. Boehling |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2014-05-14 |
| Genre | : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
| ISBN | : 9781139379694 |
A uniquely fascinating and moving account of a German-Jewish family under the Third Reich and Holocaust.
| Author | : Rebecca Boehling |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2011-06-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107377692 |
A family's recently discovered correspondence provides the inspiration for this fascinating and deeply moving account of Jewish family life before, during and after the Holocaust. Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey reveal how the Kaufmann-Steinberg family was pulled apart under the Nazi regime and dispersed over three continents. The family's unique eight-way correspondence across two generations brings into sharp focus the dilemma of Jews in Nazi Germany facing the painful decisions of when, if and to where they should emigrate. The authors capture the family members' fluctuating emotions of hope, optimism, resignation and despair as well as the day-to-day concerns, experiences and dynamics of family life despite increasing persecution and impending deportation. Headed by two sisters who were among the first female business owners in Essen, the family was far from conventional and their story contributes new dimensions to our understanding of Jewish life in Germany and in exile during these dark years.
| Author | : John Wiernicki |
| Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2001-12-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780815607229 |
1943: Polish underground fighter John Wiernicki is captured and beaten by the Gestapo, then shipped to Auschwitz. In this chilling memoir, Wiernicki, a Gentile, details "life" in the infamous death camp, and his battle to survive, physically and morally, in the face of utter evil. The author begins by remembering his aristocratic youth, an idyllic time shattered by German invasion. The ensuing dark days of occupation would fire the adolescent Wiernicki with a burning desire to serve Poland, a cause that led him to valiant action and eventual arrest. As a young non-Jew, Wiernicki was acutely sensitive to the depravity and injustice that engulfed him at Auschwitz. He bears witness to the harrowing selection and extermination of Jews doomed by birth to the gas chambers, to savage camp policies, brutal SS doctors, and rampant corruption with the system. He notes the difference in treatment between Jews and non-Jews. And he relives fearful unexpected encounters with two notorious "Angels of Death": Josef Mengele and Heinz Thilo. War in the Shadow of Auschwitz is an important historical and personal document. Its vivid portrait of prewar and wartime Poland, and of German concentration camps, provides a significant addition to the growing body of testimony by gentile survivors and a heartfelt contribution to fostering comprehension and understanding.
| Author | : Aaron Hass |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 1996-07-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521498937 |
Drawing on interviews and survey materials, Aaron Hass provides a vibrant account of the experiences of Holocaust survivors' children.
| Author | : Vaddey Ratner |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2012-09-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1849837619 |
A stunning, powerful debut novel set against the backdrop of the Cambodian War, perfect for fans of Chris Cleave and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Soon the family's world of carefully guarded royal privilege is swept up in the chaos of revolution and forced exodus. Over the next four years, as she endures the deaths of family members, starvation, and brutal forced labour, Raami clings to the only remaining vestige of childhood - the mythical legends and poems told to her by her father. In a climate of systematic violence where memory is sickness and justification for execution, Raami fights for her improbable survival. Displaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyanis testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience. 'In the Shadow of the Banyanis one of the most extraordinary and beautiful acts of storytelling I have ever encountered' Chris Cleave, author of The Other Hand 'Ratner is a fearless writer, and the novel explores important themes such as power, the relationship between love and guilt, and class. Most remarkably, it depicts the lives of characters forced to live in extreme circumstances, and investigates how that changes them. To read In the Shadow of the Banyan is to be left with a profound sense of being witness to a tragedy of history' Guardian 'This is an extraordinary debut … as beautiful as it is heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday
| Author | : Allen Brayer |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 189 |
| Release | : 2010-11-24 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1450263836 |
There was commotion everywhere. People were getting dressed or looking for things. The atmosphere was unreal, unbelievable. I know they all felt the same as I. A rope was tightening around everyone's neck-the end has come. It is like seeing the angel of death manifest in the form of a policeman. No one among us spoke. Except for the rustle of everyone getting ready to go, it was quiet. We were living a nightmare. It could not be real, but it was and yet I refused to believe it. Somehow, at least in me, there was a spark of hope. I pretended to look for things, all the while my mind raced through the possibilities, the ideas of escape, running away, or somehow just disappearing. I was desperate because my immediate chances were poor. I couldn't see myself leaving this house with the rest of the group. One thought ran over and over in my mind, I must get out of this mess.
| Author | : Cerda Bikales |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2004-09-13 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0595773427 |
"This is a beautifully written, insightful chronicle of a young girl's Holocaust survival. Though very private and personal, it nevertheless captures the common torments of children living through this disastrous civilizational breakdown. What makes this book unique is that the author pulls the reader into the story. We get to know her parents and other memorable characters for the kind of people they were. There is an immediacy in the writing that almost makes the reader a participant in the daily struggles to keep alive. We get an honest look at the relationships between men and women on the edge of annihilation and how children coped with these unusual alliances. This emotionally powerful yet intellectually lucid work stands out within the Holocaust literature. Students and others will greatly benefit as the author guides the reader, setting forth the political and historical context in which the action unfolds." -Stefanie Seltzer, President of the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust "The story of the relentless hunt of a Jewish child in Nazi Europe haunts the reader long after the last page has been turned This gripping memoir illuminates the fearsome experiences of a Holocaust child survivor with the intelligence and wisdom of an adult's retrospection." -Henryk Grynberg, Author of The Jewish Wars and The Victory, Children of Zion, and Drohobycz, Drohobycz: True Tales from the Holocaust and Life After.
| Author | : Jeffrey Veidlinger |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 441 |
| Release | : 2013-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0253011523 |
A history based on interviews with hundreds of Ukrainian Jews who survived both Hitler and Stalin, recounting experiences ordinary and extraordinary. The story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some four hundred returnees in Ukraine provide the basis for Jeffrey Veidlinger’s reappraisal of the traditional narrative of twentieth-century Jewish history. These elderly Yiddish speakers relate their memories of Jewish life in the prewar shtetl, their stories of survival during the Holocaust, and their experiences living as Jews under Communism. Despite Stalinist repressions, the Holocaust, and official antisemitism, their individual remembrances of family life, religious observance, education, and work testify to the survival of Jewish life in the shadow of the shtetl to this day.
| Author | : Miriam M. Brysk |
| Publisher | : Center Point |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2014-07-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781628991352 |
"A Holocaust child-survivor shares her memories of escaping from Lida Ghetto in Belarus with her parents and joining the Partisans in the Lipiczany Forest as part of the Jewish Resistance"--
| Author | : Jack Sack |
| Publisher | : Shengold Pub |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780884001959 |
This sequel to Dawn Over Dachau tells of a survivor's return to life after the liberation, his work in the Jewish Information Service in the city of Dachau, and his marriage to Gina Rachman, also a survivor. Sack expresses the outrage and despair felt by the survivors who were helpless in the face of the renewed anti-Semitism of post-War Europe. His testimony is irrefutable proof of the death of the death toll on the inmates of Dachau Concentration Camp and the inhumanities suffered by the Jews after the War ended. His life in America, though successful in engineering design and management fields and mining, has been, nevertheless, lived in the long shadow of the Holocaust.
