Download or read book Sustaining Memories Stories of Canadian Holocaust Survivors written by Multiple authors and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Azrieli Foundation established the Sustaining Memories Project to help survivors write their stories. A unique partnership between survivors and volunteer writing partners who were trained to work with Holocaust survivors on recording and transcribing their stories, volunteers spent countless hours on these testimonies. The strength of the bonds that form when a volunteer and a survivor create a memoir, of the emotional challenges that a survivor faces in the telling and the understanding, and the insight that the listener experiences were all part of an incredible journey. Excerpts of these co-written memoirs, never before published, are produced in this anthology to give readers a wide range of understanding of the varieties of experiences of Holocaust survivors. Sustaining Memories gives voice to Canadian Jews who suffered through ghettos, camps, hiding, fighting in the underground, as refugees in foreign countries or passing as non-Jews in daily fear of betrayal. Following their liberation, survivors often had to congregate in displaced persons camps, where many married, had children and waited years for countries to offer them new homes. Some would end up in the detention camps of Cyprus on their way to pre-state Israel; others found themselves locked behind the Iron Curtain for decades. Between 1946 and the 1980s, they all built new lives in Canada.
Download or read book Alone in the Storm written by Leslie Vertes and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1944, twenty-year-old Leslie Vertes escapes from a forced labour detail in Budapest and miraculously survives by assuming a false identity. About to taste freedom as the end of the war nears, his liberation is short-lived when he is caught by the new Soviet regime and sent for two years of back-breaking labour and captivity. Rebuilding his life and finding love, Leslie's security is once again threatened during the 1956 Hungarian uprising. It is not until he flees to Canada that he finally finds true freedom"--back cover.
Download or read book Confronting Devastation written by Ferenc Laczó and published by Azrieli Holocaust Survivor. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of excerpts from twenty memoirs who survived the Holocaust in Hungary.
Download or read book If by Miracle written by Michael Kutz and published by Azrieli Fndtn. This book was released on 2013 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling story of a courageous and resilient young boy who narrowly escapes death at the hands of the Nazi killing squads.
Download or read book At Great Risk written by Fishel Goldig and published by Azrieli Holocaust Survivor. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holocaust survivors write about how they were rescued by those who refused to stand by during the war.
Download or read book Bits and Pieces written by Henia Reinhartz and published by Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program. This book was released on 2007 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My family and I were in hiding. Suddenly I heard someone panting on the stairs . . . we didn't breathe. Who was coming now?"
Download or read book In the Hour of Fate and Danger written by Ferenc Andai and published by Azrieli Holocaust Survivor. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, lyrical memoir by a World War II survivor of forced labor in the copper mines of Bor, Serbia.
Download or read book A Cry in Unison written by Judy Cohen and published by Azrieli Holocaust Survivor. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir about a young girl from Hungary who survives Auschwitz-Birkenau and other concentration camps.
Download or read book The Hidden Package written by Claire Baum and published by Azrieli Fndtn. This book was released on 2014 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A package of letters, drawings and photographs that young "Clary" and her little sister, Ollie, sent to their parents during World War II triggers a flood of repressed memories: from April 1943 to May 1945, they had been hidden by the sister of one of their father's Resistance comrades.
Download or read book After Auschwitz written by Eva Schloss and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A standalone classic . . . An incredible book, remarkable for its unflinching gaze at the past and also for its hope' GUARDIAN, 'Books to Give You Hope' 'Remarkable . . . Makes it clear just what an achievement it was starting over again, when survivors were not only economically and physically depleted, but emotionally devastated, too' SCOTSMAN Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her. When Auschwitz was liberated, Eva and Fritzi began the long journey home. They searched desperately for Eva's father and brother, from whom they had been separated. The news came some months later. Tragically, both men had been killed. Before the war, in Amsterdam, Eva had become friendly with a young girl called Anne Frank. Though their fates were very different, Eva's life was set to be entwined with her friend's for ever more, after her mother Fritzi married Anne's father Otto Frank in 1953. This is a searingly honest account of how an ordinary person survived the Holocaust. Eva's memories and descriptions are heartbreakingly clear, her account brings the horror as close as it can possibly be. But this is also an exploration of what happened next, of Eva's struggle to live with herself after the war and to continue the work of her step-father Otto, ensuring that the legacy of Anne Frank is never forgotten.
Download or read book The Weight of Freedom written by Nate Leipciger and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To avoid thinking I repeated the words 'after the war.' The words stuck in my mind like a mantra. After the war. The words blended into the clang of the wheels. Would there ever be an end to the war?" Nate Leipciger, a thoughtful, shy eleven-year-old boy, is plunged into an incomprehensible web of ghettos, concentration and death camps during the German occupation of Poland. As he struggles to survive, he forges a new, unbreakable bond with his father and yearns for a free future. But when he is finally liberated, the weight of his pain will not ease, and his memories remain etched in tragedy. Introspective, complicated and raw, The Weight of Freedom is Nate's journey through a past that he can never leave behind.
Download or read book Never Far Apart written by Kitty Salsberg and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kati and her younger sister, Ilonka, arrive in Canada with painful memories from the Holocaust, which has taken both of their parents. Their harrowing time alone in the Budapest ghetto is fresh in their minds, as are their fragile hopes to be adopted. But their lives in Toronto are far from what they expected, and full of broken promises. As the sisters navigate their new surroundings, they each grow fiercely strong and independent, while holding onto the comfort that they will be Never Far Apart.
Download or read book From Generation to Generation written by Agnes Tomasov and published by Azrieli Series of Holocaust Su. This book was released on 2010 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agnes Tomasov's sweeping memoir of life under two totalitarian regimes is an extraordinary tale of courage, love and hope in the face of tragedy.
Download or read book Six Lost Years written by Amek Adler and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How much longer could we last?" sixteen-year-old Amek Adler laments, after arriving at yet one more concentration camp in the spring of 1945. From the Lodz and Warsaw ghettos to the Radom forced labour camp, and from the Natzweiler concentration camp to Dachau, Amek has witnessed too much destruction and tragedy to bear any more suffering. To hold onto hope for his survival, he dreams of the life he had with his parents and three brothers, reminiscing about holidays, social events and dinners; he dreams of a life without pain and starvation; and he dreams of the future. When Amek is finally liberated, he is determined to embrace all the opportunities that freedom offers.
Download or read book Escape from the Edge written by Morris Schnitzer and published by Azrieli Holocaust Survivor. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of a German Jewish teenager who takes on three different identities and crosses countless borders to escape death at the hands of the Nazis during World War II.
Download or read book Too Many Goodbyes written by Susan Garfield and published by Azrieli Holocaust Survivor. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wartime and postwar diaries illuminate the life of Holocaust survivor Susan Garfield.
Download or read book Always Remember Who You Are written by Anita Ekstein and published by Azrieli Foundation. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tragic, yet inspiring story of how a little girl loses everyone she knows and loves during WWII, but who remembers the last words her father ever said to her, which helps her build a new life in a new land.
