Author: Thomas Toivi Blatt
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810113022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Blatt's account of his childhood in Izbica provides a fascinating glimpse of Jewish life in Poland after the German invasion and during the period of mass deportations of Jews to the camps. Blatt's tale of escape, and of the five horrifying years spent eluding both the Nazis and later anti-Semitic Polish nationalists, is a firsthand account of one of the most terrifying and savage events of human history.
From the Ashes of Sobibor
Author: Thomas Toivi Blatt
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810113022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Blatt's account of his childhood in Izbica provides a fascinating glimpse of Jewish life in Poland after the German invasion and during the period of mass deportations of Jews to the camps. Blatt's tale of escape, and of the five horrifying years spent eluding both the Nazis and later anti-Semitic Polish nationalists, is a firsthand account of one of the most terrifying and savage events of human history.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810113022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Blatt's account of his childhood in Izbica provides a fascinating glimpse of Jewish life in Poland after the German invasion and during the period of mass deportations of Jews to the camps. Blatt's tale of escape, and of the five horrifying years spent eluding both the Nazis and later anti-Semitic Polish nationalists, is a firsthand account of one of the most terrifying and savage events of human history.
Sobibor, the Forgotten Revolt
Author: Thomas Toivi Blatt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Escape from Sobibor
Author: Richard L. Rashke
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252064791
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
A story reconstructed from the diaries, notes, and memories of the six hundred Jews who revolted, three hundred of whom escaped the death camp Sobibor.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252064791
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
A story reconstructed from the diaries, notes, and memories of the six hundred Jews who revolted, three hundred of whom escaped the death camp Sobibor.
Treblinka Survivor
Author: Mark S Smith
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752462423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
More than 800,000 people entered Treblinka, and fewer than seventy came out. Hershl Sperling was one of them. He escaped. Why then, fifty years later, did he jump to his death from a bridge in Scotland? The answer lies in a long-forgotten, published account of the Treblinka death camp, written by Hershl Sperling himself in the months after liberation and discovered in his briefcase after his suicide. It is reproduced here for the first time. In Treblinka Survivor, Mark S. Smith traces the life of a man who survived five concentration camps, and what he had to do to achieve this. Hershl's story, which takes the reader through his childhood in a small Polish town to the bridge in faraway Scotland, is testament to the lasting torment of those very few who survived the Nazis' most efficient and gruesome death factory. The author personally follows in his subject's footsteps from Klobuck, to Treblinka, to Glasgow.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752462423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
More than 800,000 people entered Treblinka, and fewer than seventy came out. Hershl Sperling was one of them. He escaped. Why then, fifty years later, did he jump to his death from a bridge in Scotland? The answer lies in a long-forgotten, published account of the Treblinka death camp, written by Hershl Sperling himself in the months after liberation and discovered in his briefcase after his suicide. It is reproduced here for the first time. In Treblinka Survivor, Mark S. Smith traces the life of a man who survived five concentration camps, and what he had to do to achieve this. Hershl's story, which takes the reader through his childhood in a small Polish town to the bridge in faraway Scotland, is testament to the lasting torment of those very few who survived the Nazis' most efficient and gruesome death factory. The author personally follows in his subject's footsteps from Klobuck, to Treblinka, to Glasgow.
Trap with a Green Fence
Author: Richard Glazar
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810111691
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Trap with a Green Fence is Richard Glazar's memoir of deportation, escape, and survival. In economical prose, Glazar weaves a description of Treblinka and its operations into his evocation of himself and his fellow prisoners as denizens of an underworld. Glazar gives us compelling images of these horrors in a tone that remains thoughtful but sober, affecting but simple.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810111691
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Trap with a Green Fence is Richard Glazar's memoir of deportation, escape, and survival. In economical prose, Glazar weaves a description of Treblinka and its operations into his evocation of himself and his fellow prisoners as denizens of an underworld. Glazar gives us compelling images of these horrors in a tone that remains thoughtful but sober, affecting but simple.
What They Saved
Author: Nancy K. Miller
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 080323001X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The discovery of a box of mementos prompts the author to explore past generations of her family, learning about her family's experience during the Holocaust as well as earlier episodes of anti-Semitism.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 080323001X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The discovery of a box of mementos prompts the author to explore past generations of her family, learning about her family's experience during the Holocaust as well as earlier episodes of anti-Semitism.
The Last Consolation Vanished
Author: Zalmen Gradowski
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022666032X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
A unique and haunting first-person Holocaust account by Zalmen Gradowski, a Sonderkommando prisoner killed in Auschwitz. On October 7, 1944, a group of Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz obtained explosives and rebelled against their Nazi murderers. It was a desperate uprising that was defeated by the end of the day. More than four hundred prisoners were killed. Filling a gap in history, The Last Consolation Vanished is the first complete English translation and critical edition of one prisoner’s powerful account of life and death in Auschwitz, written in Yiddish and buried in the ashes near Crematorium III. Zalmen Gradowski was in the Sonderkommando (special squad) at Auschwitz, a Jewish prisoner given the unthinkable task of ushering Jewish deportees into the gas chambers, removing their bodies, salvaging any valuables, transporting their corpses to the crematoria, and destroying all evidence of their murders. Sonderkommandos were forcibly recruited by SS soldiers; when they discovered the horror of their assignment, some of them committed suicide or tried to induce the SS to kill them. Despite their impossible situation, many Sonderkommandos chose to resist in two interlaced ways: planning an uprising and testifying. Gradowski did both, by helping to lead a rebellion and by documenting his experiences. Within 120 scrawled notebook pages, his accounts describe the process of the Holocaust, the relentless brutality of the Nazi regime, the assassination of Czech Jews, the relationships among the community of men forced to assist in this nightmare, and the unbearable separation and death of entire families, including his own. Amid daily unimaginable atrocities, he somehow wrote pages that were literary, sometimes even lyrical—hidden where and when one would least expect to find them. The October 7th rebellion was completely crushed and Gradowski was killed in the process, but his testimony lives on. His extraordinary and moving account, accompanied by a foreword and afterword by Philippe Mesnard and Arnold I. Davidson, is a voice speaking to us from the past on behalf of millions who were silenced. Their story must be shared.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022666032X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
A unique and haunting first-person Holocaust account by Zalmen Gradowski, a Sonderkommando prisoner killed in Auschwitz. On October 7, 1944, a group of Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz obtained explosives and rebelled against their Nazi murderers. It was a desperate uprising that was defeated by the end of the day. More than four hundred prisoners were killed. Filling a gap in history, The Last Consolation Vanished is the first complete English translation and critical edition of one prisoner’s powerful account of life and death in Auschwitz, written in Yiddish and buried in the ashes near Crematorium III. Zalmen Gradowski was in the Sonderkommando (special squad) at Auschwitz, a Jewish prisoner given the unthinkable task of ushering Jewish deportees into the gas chambers, removing their bodies, salvaging any valuables, transporting their corpses to the crematoria, and destroying all evidence of their murders. Sonderkommandos were forcibly recruited by SS soldiers; when they discovered the horror of their assignment, some of them committed suicide or tried to induce the SS to kill them. Despite their impossible situation, many Sonderkommandos chose to resist in two interlaced ways: planning an uprising and testifying. Gradowski did both, by helping to lead a rebellion and by documenting his experiences. Within 120 scrawled notebook pages, his accounts describe the process of the Holocaust, the relentless brutality of the Nazi regime, the assassination of Czech Jews, the relationships among the community of men forced to assist in this nightmare, and the unbearable separation and death of entire families, including his own. Amid daily unimaginable atrocities, he somehow wrote pages that were literary, sometimes even lyrical—hidden where and when one would least expect to find them. The October 7th rebellion was completely crushed and Gradowski was killed in the process, but his testimony lives on. His extraordinary and moving account, accompanied by a foreword and afterword by Philippe Mesnard and Arnold I. Davidson, is a voice speaking to us from the past on behalf of millions who were silenced. Their story must be shared.
Ashes in the Wind
Author: Jacob Presser
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780285638136
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Beginning in 1940, 110,000 Jews were deported from the Netherlands to concentration camps. Of those, fewer than 6000 returned. 'Ashes in the Wind' is a monumental history of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, and a detailed and moving description of how the Nazi party first discriminated against Jews.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780285638136
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Beginning in 1940, 110,000 Jews were deported from the Netherlands to concentration camps. Of those, fewer than 6000 returned. 'Ashes in the Wind' is a monumental history of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, and a detailed and moving description of how the Nazi party first discriminated against Jews.
German City, Jewish Memory
Author: Nils Roemer
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1584659475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A remarkable, in-depth study of Jewish history, culture, and memory in a historic and contemporary German city
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1584659475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A remarkable, in-depth study of Jewish history, culture, and memory in a historic and contemporary German city
Elie Wiesel
Author: Lisa Moore
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
ISBN: 9780766025769
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Provides details of the life of Elie Wiesel, from his childhood in Romania and his development as a writer to his humanitarian works.
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
ISBN: 9780766025769
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Provides details of the life of Elie Wiesel, from his childhood in Romania and his development as a writer to his humanitarian works.