Download or read book The Life of a Child Survivor from Bialystok Poland written by Ellen Ellen Winter and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is my story, from a child survivor's perspective, how I escaped concentration camps, executions squads and the gas chambers. Orphaned at 13 years of age, I had a strong will and kept my body as strong as I could. Now that I am 80 years old, writing these experiences has helped me to overcome the nightmare I lived through and it also provides a living history for my readers.
Download or read book The Life of a Child Survivor from Bialystock Poland written by Benjamin Midler and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of a thirteen-year old boy in the ghettos and concentration camps during World War II.
Download or read book The Last Eyewitnesses written by Wiktoria Sliwowska and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-13 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The memoirs of Jews who were children during the Nazi occupation of Poland This book serves as a memorial to loved ones who do not even have a grave, as well as a tribute to those who risked their lives and families to save a Jewish child. A wide variety of experiences during the Nazi occupation of Poland are related with wrenching simplicity and candor, experiences that illustrate horrors and deprivation, but also present examples of courage and compassion."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book A Jump for Life written by Ruth Altbeker Cyprys and published by Constable Limited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Boy on the Wooden Box written by Leon Leyson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. With incredible luck, perseverance and grit, Leyson was able to survive the sadism of the Nazis, including that of the demonic Amon Goeth, commandant of Plaszow, the concentration camp outside Krakow. Ultimately, it was the generosity and cunning of one man, a man named Oskar Schindler, who saved Leon Leyson's life, and the lives of his mother, his father, and two of his four siblings, by adding their names to his list of workers in his factory - a list that became world renowned: Schindler's List. This, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's List child, perfectly captures the innocence of a small boy who goes through the unthinkable. Most notable is the lack of rancour, the lack of venom, and the abundance of dignity in Mr Leyson's telling. The Boy on the Wooden Boxis a legacy of hope, a memoir unlike anything you've ever read.
Download or read book Irena s Children written by Tilar J. Mazzeo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the story of a Holocaust rescuer to reveal the formidable risks she took to her own safety to save some 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.
Download or read book All But My Life written by Gerda Weissmann Klein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-03-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experiences of a young Jewish girl in occupied Poland and Nazi concentration camps.
Download or read book Bialystok to Birkenau written by Michel Mielnicki and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of Mielnicki, who was born in Wasilków, near Białystok, in 1927. Pp. 92-205 recount his experiences in the Holocaust. Describes the German occupation in June 1941, followed by a pogrom carried out by the local population. Mielnicki, with his parents, sister, and brother, was interned in the ghettos of Białystok and Pruzany. In December 1942 the family was deported to Auschwitz, where Mielnicki's parents were killed and he was separated from his siblings. In 1944 he was sent to the Buna factory, where he befriended Russian POWs who helped him adopt a Russian non-Jewish identity. In early 1945 he was transferred to Mittelbau-Dora and then to Bergen-Belsen, where he was liberated. He returned to Białystok, then emigrated to France and later to Canada. He was reunited with his sister shortly after the war, but with his brother, who was in the USSR, only 47 years later. In 1991 he testified at the German war crimes trial of Heinrich Kuhnemann, an SS-officer at Auschwitz who had beaten Mielnicki's father and sent him to his death, but Kuhnemann was not convicted.
Download or read book Never Erased in My Mind written by Esfir Kaplan Lupyan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-03-16 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esfir (Esther) Kaplan Lupyan’s normal childhood was cruelly aborted by World War II when she had barely turned five-years-old and was away at summer camp for young children. She, her family, and the rest of the Jews, forced by the Nazis into the lethal trap of Minsk Ghetto, had to survive through indescribable suffering. In Never Erased in My Mind, she shares the story of a young Jewish girl in Belarus, encompassing sixty years of Soviet history, including the horrors of Stalinism, World War II, the Holocaust, and post-Stalin anti-Semitism. Her father was arrested by the KGB when she was only three weeks old. The family didn’t know his fate, nor did he know theirs. This memoir chronicles how she and her mother survived the Minsk Ghetto and certain death, miraculously escaping on the last day of the ghetto’s existence to the forest, where they hid for nine months. Her closest relatives all perished, including her grandparents, 13-year-old brother, and 22-year-old uncle. After the war, Esfir and her mother reunited with her father and joined him in exile in the Vorkuta Gulag in the Far North above the Arctic Circle. Later, after studying chemical engineering in Leningrad, she and her family became “refuseniks,” denied permission to leave the Soviet Union. A story of survival, Never Erased in My Mind serves as a reminder to heed the lessons of the Holocaust, that it should never happen again.
Download or read book Children of Zion written by Henryk Grynberg and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning writer Henryk Grynberg takes an extraordinary collection of interviews with young Polish war orphans conducted in Palestine in 1943 about their experiences and gives their stories "one voice". The cumulative effect of so many different voices discussing similar horrors is shocking and makes this book unlike any other work on the Holocaust.
Download or read book A Story of Hope written by Alexander Rucki and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Rucki is the child of a Jewish Holocaust survivor, and his book is both a reminder of mans breathtaking inhumanity to man and the absolute miracle of survival. These long-term effects are seen in hindsight over sixty years later. One can only begin to imagine what it wouldve been like to be sixteen and the sole survivor of a Nazi death camp. Its been done beforeDiary of Anne Frank and Schindlers List among the two most popularbut this tragedy is constantly revisited, and I suspect this story is now ripe for the retelling. Alexanders mother not only survived Auschwitzher brother, sister; and parents did notbut she married, bore two sons, and moved to a new continent with a new language, far away from the hell of Europe.
Download or read book A Strange Outcome written by John Roy-Wojciechowski and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a bitterly cold winter's morning in 1940, little Jan Wojciechowski and his family were rounded up by the conquering Russians to begin the arduous journey to a labour camp in the Arctic. Along with millions of other Polish citizens, they endured years of cruel hardship and deprivation. Millions perished but the Wojciechowski children miraculously survived.This is the story of a barely known holocaust that brought young Jan to New Zealand in 1944: at its heart is a family who refused to be crushed by the terrifying force of Stalinism.A Strange Outcome also gives a fascinating glimpse into the fledgling beginnings of big business in New Zealand and the influences that put Jan, now known as John Roy, on the pathway to a happy and enormously successful life.
Download or read book Ordinary Jews written by Evgeny Finkel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Jewish responses during the Holocaust shed new light on the dynamics of genocide and political violence Focusing on the choices and actions of Jews during the Holocaust, Ordinary Jews examines the different patterns of behavior of civilians targeted by mass violence. Relying on rich archival material and hundreds of survivors' testimonies, Evgeny Finkel presents a new framework for understanding the survival strategies in which Jews engaged: cooperation and collaboration, coping and compliance, evasion, and resistance. Finkel compares Jews' behavior in three Jewish ghettos—Minsk, Kraków, and Białystok—and shows that Jews' responses to Nazi genocide varied based on their experiences with prewar policies that either promoted or discouraged their integration into non-Jewish society. Finkel demonstrates that while possible survival strategies were the same for everyone, individuals' choices varied across and within communities. In more cohesive and robust Jewish communities, coping—confronting the danger and trying to survive without leaving—was more organized and successful, while collaboration with the Nazis and attempts to escape the ghetto were minimal. In more heterogeneous Jewish communities, collaboration with the Nazis was more pervasive, while coping was disorganized. In localities with a history of peaceful interethnic relations, evasion was more widespread than in places where interethnic relations were hostile. State repression before WWII, to which local communities were subject, determined the viability of anti-Nazi Jewish resistance. Exploring the critical influences shaping the decisions made by Jews in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe, Ordinary Jews sheds new light on the dynamics of collective violence and genocide.
Download or read book Needle and Thread written by Charles Zabuski and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Witness written by Judith S. Kestenberg and published by American Psychiatric Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special attention is paid to the effects of the Holocaust on children who were in hiding and the experience of adolescent children, as described in the diary of an adolescent girl.
Download or read book Fania s Heart written by Anne Renaud and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old Sorale finds a tiny heart-shaped birthday card in her mother's belongings that leads to the story of her mother's survival in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
Download or read book The Last Eyewitnesses Volume 2 written by Jakub Gutenbaum and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of Jews who were children during the Nazi occupation of Poland This book serves as a memorial to loved ones who do not even have a grave, as well as a tribute to those who risked their lives and families to save a Jewish child. A wide variety of experiences during the Nazi occupation of Poland are related with wrenching simplicity and candor, experiences that illustrate horrors and deprivation, but also present examples of courage and compassion. These recollections-whether of hiding in forests or camouflaged bunkers, fighting with groups of partisans, enduring the horrors of concentration camps, or living in fear under disguised identities-serve as eloquent testimony to the depth, diversity, and richness of humanity under siege and offer a powerful lesson for future generations. Written by people who remained in Poland after the war, these accounts convey a great immediacy; the authors are not removed from the environment in which these experiences took place. The psychological impact on these child survivors and the difficulties they encountered even after the war are very poignant. The passing years have brought urgency to the publication of these stories, as those who wrote them are the last surviving eyewitnesses of these tumultuous events.
