Where She Came From By Helen Epstein

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Title	:	Where She Came From
Author	:	Helen Epstein
ISBN	:	0841914443
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	251

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Where She Came From is a memoir in the form of a quest for personal and historical understanding a multi generational saga with the sweep and emotional impact of a novel After the death of her mother, Frances, in 1989, Helen Epstein set out to research and reconstruct the life of her mother and that of her grandmother and great grandmother Like so many children of H Where She Came From is a memoir in the form of a quest for personal and historical understanding a multi generational saga with the...

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All But My Life By Gerda Weissmann Klein

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Title	:	All But My Life
Author	:	Gerda Weissmann Klein
ISBN	:	0809015803
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	272

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All But My Life A MemoirAll But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein s six year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty From her comfortable home in Bielitz present day Bielsko in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops including the man who was to become her husband in Volary, Czechoslovakia, in 1945, Gerda takes the All But My Life A MemoirAll But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein s six year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty Fr...

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The Immortal Bartfuss By Aharon Appelfeld

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Title	:	The Immortal Bartfuss
Author	:	Aharon Appelfeld
ISBN	:	0802133584
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	138

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Set in contemporary Israel, The Immortal Bartfuss is perhaps the most profound and powerful portrait of a Holocaust survivor ever drawn Using the techniques of omission and indirection perfected in such masterpieces as Badenheim 1939 and To the Land of the Cattails, Appelfeld tells the story of Bartfuss, enigmatically the immortal because of his experience in the camps Set in contemporary Israel, The Immortal Bartfuss is perhaps the most profound and powerful portrait of a Holocaust survivor eve...

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Other People's Houses By Lore Segal

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Title	:	Other People's Houses
Author	:	Lore Segal
ISBN	:	1565841433
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	320

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Originally published in 1964 and hailed by critics including Cynthia Ozick and Elie Wiesel, Other People s Houses is Lore Segal s internationally acclaimed semi autobiographical first novel.Nine months after Hitler takes Austria, a ten year old girl leaves Vienna aboard a children s transport that is to take her and several hundred children to safety in England For the ne Originally published in 1964 and hailed by critics including Cynthia Ozick and Elie Wiesel, Other People s Houses is Lore...

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Sonderkommando Auschwitz By Shlomo Venezia

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Title	:	Sonderkommando Auschwitz
Author	:	Shlomo Venezia
ISBN	:	8817028630
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	240

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Per decenni Shlomo Venezia, ebreo di Salonicco di nazionalit italiana, ha preferito mantenere il silenzio Ha tenuto dentro di s i mostri e i fantasmi, il marchio indelebile della Storia Ha messo a tacere le voci raggelanti e i colpi della brutalit umana, come l inconsolabile pianto di un neonato, sommerso da corpi asfissiati, tra cui quello della sua stessa madre, pla Per decenni Shlomo Venezia, ebreo di Salonicco di nazionalit italiana, ha preferito mantenere il silenzio Ha tenuto dentro di s i mostri e ...

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Nothing To Lose But My Life By David Wiener

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Title	:	Nothing To Lose But My Life
Author	:	David Wiener
ISBN	:
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	135

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David Wiener s compelling memoir that begins with his vivid recollection of his childhood in Lodz and Krotoszyn, Poland surrounded by loving parents and siblings who were part of a vibrant, religious Jewish community At thirteen, he witnessed the Nazi invasion of Poland, and his safe world was abruptly and brutally destroyed Escaping the Lodz ghetto, virtually alone, he David Wiener s compelling memoir that begins with his vivid recollection of his childhood in Lodz and Krotoszyn, Poland surrounded by lov...

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Along the Tracks By Tamar Bergman

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Title	:	Along the Tracks
Author	:	Tamar Bergman
ISBN	:	0395745136
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	256

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Based on a true story, Along the Tracks tells the tale of Yankele, a Polish boy who is separated from his mother during the German invasion of Poland in World War II....

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I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree By Laura Hillman

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Title	:	I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree
Author	:	Laura Hillman
ISBN	:	0689869800
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	256

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HANNELORE, YOUR PAPA IS DEAD In the spring of 1942 Hannelore received a letter from Mama at her school in Berlin, Germany Papa had been arrested and taken to a concentration camp Six weeks later he was sent home ashes in an urn Soon another letter arrived The Gestapo has notified your brothers and me that we are to be deported to the East whatever that means HANNELORE, YOUR PAPA IS DEAD In the spring of 1942 Hannelore received a letter from Mama at her school in Berlin, Germany Papa had been arr...

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Sarah's Key By Tatiana de Rosnay

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Title	:	Sarah's Key
Author	:	Tatiana de Rosnay
ISBN	:	0312370849
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	293

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Paris, July 1942 Sarah, a ten year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door to door arresting French families in the middle of the night Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard their secret hiding place and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released Sixty Years Later Sarah s story in Paris, July 1942 Sarah, a ten year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door to d...

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Slingshot of Hell By Yechezkel Harfenes

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Title	:	Slingshot of Hell
Author	:	Yechezkel Harfenes
ISBN	:	0944070078
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	301

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Yechezkel Harfenes considered his time in the Nazi hell, shuttled from death camp to death camp, to embody this verse, which compares the hellish experience of the wicked after their deaths to the movement of a stone back and forth within a slingshot as it is wound up to be shot The Gemara explains The souls of the wicked are eternally imprisoned while one angel stands Yechezkel Harfenes considered his time in the Nazi hell, shuttled from death camp to death camp, to embody this verse, which com...

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L'isola in via degli Uccelli By Uri Orlev

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Title	:	L'isola in via degli Uccelli
Author	:	Uri Orlev
ISBN	:	8862560591
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	185

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During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life threatening conditions....

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The Story of a Life By Aharon Appelfeld

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Title	:	The Story of a Life
Author	:	Aharon Appelfeld
ISBN	:	0805211268
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	208

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When Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old the Nazis occupied Czernowitz, his hometown They penned the Jews into a ghetto and eventually sent whoever had not been shot or starved to death on a forced march across the Ukraine to a labor camp As men, women, and children fall away around them, Aharon and his father miraculously survive, and Aharon, even miraculously, es When Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old the Nazis occupied Czernowitz, his hometown They penned the Jews into a ghetto and eventually sent...

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Signs of Life By Francisca Kan

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Title	:	Signs of Life
Author	:	Francisca Kan
ISBN	:	087491955X
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	223

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An intensely personal account of life in a Nazi camp in Holland from which trains carried Dutch Jews to their death in the extermination camps of Eastern Europe These eloquent letters were written by a thirty three year old housewife and mother of three young children, ages three, five, and eight Her husband, also in hiding, urges her again and again to escape by means o An intensely personal account of life in a Nazi camp in Holland from which trains carried Dutch Jews to their death in the extermination...

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Life With a Star By Jiří Weil

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Title	:	Life With a Star
Author	:	Jiří Weil
ISBN	:	0374187371
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	224

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Weil based this novel on his experiences hiding from the Nazis in Czechoslovakia in order to avoid the concentration camps In recommending the book to FSG for translation into English, Philip Roth wrote I think that the book is, without a doubt, one of the outstanding novels I ve read about the fate of a Jew and the Jews under the Nazis I don t really know of one quite Weil based this novel on his experiences hiding from the Nazis in Czechoslovakia in order to avoid the concentration camps In re...

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Divided Lives By Cynthia A. Crane

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Title	:	Divided Lives
Author	:	Cynthia A. Crane
ISBN	:	0312219539
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	352

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Divided Lives is a book that brings together the horrifying life stories of women from Jewish Christian marriages whose families were persecuted under Hitler s Third Reich These women, the Mischling, half breeds, or half Jews, were subjected to an onslaught of anti Jewish laws that divided spouses, family, and friends From the early Hitler years through po Divided Lives is a book that brings together the horrifying life stories of women from Jewish Christian marriages whose families were persecu...

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Run, Boy, Run By Uri Orlev

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Title	:	Run, Boy, Run
Author	:	Uri Orlev
ISBN	:	0618164650
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	192

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Run, Boy, Run is the extraordinary account of one boy s survival of the Holocaust Srulik is only eight years old when he finds himself all alone in the Warsaw ghetto He escapes into the countryside where he spends the ensuing years hiding in the forest, dependent on the sympathies and generosity of the poor farmers in the surrounding area Despite the seemingly insurmoun Run, Boy, Run is the extraordinary account of one boy s survival of the Holocaust Srulik is only eight years old when he finds himself al...

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The Boy on the Wooden Box By Leon Leyson

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Title	:	The Boy on the Wooden Box
Author	:	Leon Leyson
ISBN	:	1442497831
Format	:	ebook
Number of Pages	:	240

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Even in the darkest of times especially in the darkest of times there is room for strength and bravery A remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindler s list.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 incr Even in the darkest of times especially in the darkest of times there is room for strength and bravery A remarkabl...

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