Download or read book Surviving the Ghetto written by Serena Di Nepi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Surviving the Ghetto, Serena Di Nepi recounts the first fifty years of the ghetto, exploring the social and cultural strategies that allowed the Jews of Rome to preserve their identity and resist Catholic conversion over three long centuries (1555-1870).
Download or read book Surviving the Holocaust written by Avraham Tory and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991-09-01 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable chronicle of life and death in the Jewish Ghetto of Kovno, Lithuania, from June 1941 to January 1944, was written under conditions of extreme danger by a Ghetto inmate and secretary of the Jewish Council. After the war, in order to escape from Lithuania, the author was forced to entrust the diary to leaders of the Escape movement; eventually it made its way to his new home in Israel. The diary incorporates Avraham Tory’s collections of official documents, Jewish Council reports, and original photographs and drawings made in the Ghetto. It depicts in grim detail the struggle for survival under Nazi domination, when—if not simply carted off and murdered in a random “action”—Jews were exploited as slave labor while being systematically starved and denied adequate housing and medical care. Through it all, Tory’s overriding purpose was to record the unimaginable events of these years and to memorialize the determination of the Jews to sustain their community life in the midst of the Nazi terror. Of the surviving diaries originating in the principal European Ghettos of this period, Tory’s is the longest written by an adult, a dramatic and horrifying document that makes an invaluable contribution to contemporary history. Tory provides an insider’s view of the desperate efforts of Ghetto leaders to protect Jews. Martin Gilbert’s masterly introduction establishes the authenticity of the diary, presents its events against the backdrop of the war in Europe, and considers the crucial questions of collaboration and resistance.
Download or read book Surviving the Ghetto written by Serena Di Nepi and published by Studies in Jewish History and. This book was released on 2020 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Ghetto -- The Birth of the Ghetto and the Dangers Narrowly Escaped in 1555 -- A Ruling Class for the Jews of the Ghetto -- Career Bankers -- Unexpected Opportunities -- The Camerlengo, a Protector in the Curia -- Separate at Home.
Download or read book Will to Live written by Adam Starkopf and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story of a Jewish family's survival in Nazi-occupied Poland by assuming "Aryan" identities.
Download or read book The Ghetto Survival Guide Or How to Survive in a Life Or Death Situation written by Suzanne Leblanc and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapists, Murderers, Molesters, Purse Snatchers, BEWARE ! Because if you do attack someone who has read and employed my advice, well, let me know how that goes for you.There are many ways to defend yourself in case you are attacked. These are but a few 'lessons' I'll teach you that I acquired through the school of hard knocks.
Download or read book Surviving the Warsaw Ghetto written by Helen Lawner and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surviving Theresienstadt written by Vera Schiff and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, Vera Schiff and her family were sent to Theresienstadt. Touted as the "model ghetto" for propaganda purposes, as well as to deceive Red Cross inspectors, it was in fact a holding camp for famous Jews--in case the world was to inquire. For most, however, it was the last stop on the way to the gas chambers. Those "lucky" enough to remain alive faced slave labor, starvation and disease. Shiff's intimate narrative of endurance recounts her and her family's three years in Theresienstadt, the challenges of life under postwar communism, and her escape to the nascent and turbulent state of Israel.
Download or read book Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto written by Samuel D. Kassow and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful writings and art of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these works from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust from the perspective of its first interpreters, the victims themselves. Gathered clandestinely by an underground ghetto collective called Oyneg Shabes, the collection of reportage, diaries, prose, artwork, poems, jokes, and sermons captures the heroism, tragedy, humor, and social dynamics of the ghetto. Miraculously surviving the devastation of war, this extraordinary archive encompasses a vast range of voices--young and old, men and women, the pious and the secular, optimists and pessimists--and chronicles different perspectives on the topics of the day while also preserving rapidly endangered cultural traditions. Described by David G. Roskies as "a civilization responding to its own destruction," these texts tell the story of the Warsaw Ghetto in real time, against time, and for all time.
Download or read book The Upstander written by Jori Epstein and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stench of decay pierced the air aboard the boxcar of trapped Jews. “Why me?” fifteen-year-old Max asked himself, as a convoy rumbled from the Warsaw Ghetto to Majdanek death camp in May 1943. The Nazis had destroyed the Glauben family’s business, upended their rights, and ultimately decimated their neighborhood. The deluge of questions would only intensify after the Nazis murdered Max’s mother, father, and brother. Max channeled grit, determination, and a fortuitous knack for manufacturing airplane parts to outlast six horrific concentration camps in his quest to survive. This memoir explores Max’s mischievous childhood and teen years as a go-to ghetto smuggler. Max journeys from displaced person to American immigrant and Korean veteran. He reveals how he ached as he dared to court love and rear children. For decades, he bottled up his trauma. Then he realized: He could transform his pain into purpose. Infused with raw emotion and vivid detail, historical records and Max’s poignant voice, this memoir relays the true story of the harrowing violence and dehumanization Max endured. It relays Max’s powerful lifetime commitment to actively thwarting hate and galvanizing resilience. Max insists you, too, can transform your adversity into your greatest strength. In the seventy-five years since his liberation, Max has ceased to ask himself, “Why me?” Instead, he reframes his focus, eager to partner with you and ask: “What can we do next?”
Download or read book Surviving Despair written by Herman Taube and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak written by Dawid Sierakowiak and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the evening I had to prepare food and cook supper, which exhausted me totally. In politics there's absolutely nothing new. Again, out of impatience I feel myself beginning to fall into melancholy. There is really no way out of this for us." This is Dawid Sierakowiak's final diary entry. Soon after writing it, the young author died of tuberculosis, exhaustion, and starvation--the Holocaust syndrome known as "ghetto disease." After the liberation of the Łódź Ghetto, his notebooks were found stacked on a cookstove, ready to be burned for heat. Young Sierakowiak was one of more than 60,000 Jews who perished in that notorious urban slave camp, a man-made hell which was the longest surviving concentration of Jews in Nazi Europe. The diary comprises a remarkable legacy left to humanity by its teenage author. It is one of the most fastidiously detailed accounts ever rendered of modern life in human bondage. Off mountain climbing and studying in southern Poland during the summer of 1939, Dawid begins his diary with a heady enthusiasm to experience life, learn languages, and read great literature. He returns home under the quickly gathering clouds of war. Abruptly Łódź is occupied by the Nazis, and the Sierakowiak family is among the city's 200,000 Jews who are soon forced into a sealed ghetto, completely cut off from the outside world. With intimate, undefended prose, the diary's young author begins to describe the relentless horror of their predicament: his daily struggle to obtain food to survive; trying to make reason out of a world gone mad; coping with the plagues of death and deportation. Repeatedly he rallies himself against fear and pessimism, fighting the cold, disease, and exhaustion which finally consume him. Physical pain and emotional woe hold him constantly at the edge of endurance. Hunger tears Dawid's family apart, turning his father into a thief who steals bread from his wife and children. The wonder of the diary is that every bit of hardship yields wisdom from Dawid's remarkable intellect. Reading it, you become a prisoner with him in the ghetto, and with discomfiting intimacy you begin to experience the incredible process by which the vast majority of the Jews of Europe were annihilated in World War II. Significantly, the youth has no doubt about the consequence of deportation out of the ghetto: "Deportation into lard," he calls it. A committed communist and the unit leader of an underground organization, he crusades for more food for the ghetto's school children. But when invited to pledge his life to a suicide resistance squad, he writes that he cannot become a "professional revolutionary." He owes his strength and life to the care of his family.
Download or read book Through the Eyes of a Mother written by Latonya So and published by RICHER Press. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unbridled and engaging story is for anyone who is interested in understanding how a woman who has successfully found her way out of “the ghetto” rationalizes, thinks, and articulates the experience. In her story she bravely and entertainingly shares how she discovered the power to control circumstances rather than allowing them to control her. In 1998, she gave birth to her first child and began to see life through the eyes of a mother. Today, she and her husband now have three beautiful children and live in an upscale suburban neighborhood. She states that “with each child my motherly instinct to protect, teach and love became enormous.”
Download or read book My Will to Live written by Eve Gordon-Ramek and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy is caught up in the German invasion of Poland in 1939. His life is rapidly changed. His family is destroyed. An unbelievable story about escape, intrigue, survival and the miraculous ability of one young man to outwit and outlive his gestapo torturers.
Download or read book A Child of the Ghetto A Memoir written by Benjamin Garber and published by Benjamin Garber Publications. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Benjamin Garber arrived in the United States in 1949 at the age of ten, he had already lived a life most of us could never imagine having to endure. When he was a young child of three or four, Ben recalls leaving the doctor's office with his mother: German airplanes appeared suddenly, and it began to rain bombs. All he remembers was running down the street with his mother and nanny, surrounded by the sounds of explosions and mayhem. It was a beautiful summer day, which suddenly turned gray and foreboding. As the Germans set up the Wilno Ghetto, forcing much of the city's Jewish population into one small and older part of the city with narrow cobblestone streets, Ben and his mother learned to adapt-and survive. Being able to be quiet and hidden was often the difference between surviving the Holocaust and perishing in it.A Child of the Ghetto is the remarkable story of survival and triumph. After escaping the Wilno Ghetto, Ben and his mother survived for eleven months by hiding out with a group of Jews in a cellar that was cold, damp, and dark. How they survived those months is a testament to the human spirit and resilience. Emotions ran high and tempers flared. Boredom and anxiety were constant threats, and thirst and hunger were ever-present. German troops, fighting directly above their shelter, eventually discovered the group, but they managed to co-exist with the enemy after a quick-thinking member of their group convinced the soldiers they were Polish citizens hiding from the Russians. After being liberated in the summer of 1944 when he was just eight years old, Ben had already lived a lifetime. He was old enough to know that he and his mother had survived some experiences the rest of us will never know-but he also knew that he could now think about the future: going to school, running around with other kids, riding bikes and reading books, something he had never done before. Ben knew then and there that this was not the end, but instead the beginning of a new journey.That journey led Ben, his mother, and stepfather to a new country. Without knowing a word of English, Ben arrived in the United States in 1949 where he set out to explore his new home and newly found freedom, eventually graduating from medical school, marrying, and enjoying a family of his own.
Download or read book Running Through Fire How I Survived the Holocaust written by Hilton Obenzinger and published by Mercury House. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zosia Goldberg's heroic and startling tale of surviving the Nazi Genocide begins with the siege of Warsaw, whereafter Goldberg escaped the Warsaw Ghetto through the sewer and went on to survive the Holocaust posing as a Gentile. She was a débrouillarde, someone who could run through fire without getting burned. Hers is a story of resistance at every turn, of continual attempts at sabotage, of perpetually escaping and defeating the enemy. Her account is filled with unique energy and a wonder at the strangeness of human behavior. For not only did she suffer bitter betrayals by fellow Jews, she also encountered the unexpected sympathies of Nazis, and was at many times aided by her very tormentors. This is not just a story of the Holocaust, but of a woman struggling to make sense of human folly and depravity.
Download or read book Surviving the Holocaust written by Cath Senker and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series for less able readers covers key modern history topics in an exciting, approachable way. Each title covers a major war or conflict from the 20th Century and looks at the causes, major incidents and results from the point of view of the people who lived through it. Featuring primary and secondary sources, plus exciting real-life stories, each book describes the sequence of events clearly and holds the reader's attention.
Download or read book Out of the Ghetto written by Jack Klajman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the Holocaust experiences of Jankiel (Jack) Klajman, who was born in Warsaw in 1931. Describes life in the ghetto, where his parents died. A brother and sister were deported to Treblinka and perished; another brother, hiding on the "Aryan side", was denounced and killed. Klajman, with his non-Jewish appearance, snuck in and out of the ghetto, smuggling food; he also was a messenger for a resistance group. During the uprising in 1943 he escaped from the ghetto and hid, protected for over a year by a Polish woman. Since he was the only survivor of his family, he was sent to England after the war with other Jewish orphans; he later settled in Canada.
