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Book Synopsis Holocaust Survival in Antwerp by : Alter Kleiman
Download or read book Holocaust Survival in Antwerp written by Alter Kleiman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of Christians who collaborated with the Jewish underground to assure Jews’ survival begs for greater attention. Their informal cooperation emerges as a key element in Holocaust Survival in Antwerp: On Foreign Soil, a memoir of a Jewish Holocaust survivor, translated and with an introduction by Jeffrey Kleiman. Alter Kleiman fled Polish antisemitism in 1926 and settled in Antwerp. By 1942, life under German rule became unsustainable, so he fled the city and found refuge in the Belgian region of Wallonia where the industrial city of Charleroi offered protection. There, he shared the basement apartment in a boarding house. In this memoir, Kleiman recounts how, despite his fears of betrayal, Christians not only sheltered him but helped him further by directing members of the Jewish underground to this apartment, who were then able to provide cash and food coupons.
Book Synopsis Belgium and the Holocaust by : Dan Mikhman
Download or read book Belgium and the Holocaust written by Dan Mikhman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Holocaust in Belgium.
Book Synopsis Looking for Strangers by : Dori Katz
Download or read book Looking for Strangers written by Dori Katz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dori Katz is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who thought that her lost memories of her childhood years in Belgium were irrecoverable. But after a chance viewing of a documentary about hidden children in German-occupied Belgium, she realized that she might, in fact, be able to unearth those years. Looking for Strangers is the deeply honest record of her attempt to do so, a detective story that unfolds through one of the most horrifying periods in history in an attempt to understand one’s place within it. In alternating chapters, Katz journeys into multiple pasts, setting details from her mother’s stories that have captivated her throughout her life alongside an account of her own return to Belgium forty years later—against her mother’s urgings—in search of greater clarity. She reconnects her sharp but fragmented memories: being sent by her mother in 1943, at the age of three, to live with a Catholic family under a Christian identity; then being given up, inexplicably, to an orphanage in the years immediately following the war. Only after that, amid postwar confusion, was she able to reconnect with her mother. Following this trail through Belgium to her past places of hiding, Katz eventually finds herself in San Francisco, speaking with a man who claimed to have known her father in Auschwitz—and thus known his end. Weighing many other stories from the people she meets along her way—all of whom seem to hold something back—she attempts to stitch thread after thread into a unified truth, to understand the countless motivations and circumstances that determined her remarkable life. A story at once about self-discovery, the transformation of memory, a fraught mother-daughter relationship, and the oppression of millions, Looking for Strangers is a book of both historical insight and imaginative grasp. It is a book in which the past, through its very mystery, becomes alive, immediate—of the most urgent importance.
Book Synopsis Right to Reparations by : Rachel Blumenthal
Download or read book Right to Reparations written by Rachel Blumenthal and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the early years of the Claims Conference, the organization which lobbies for and distributes reparations to Holocaust survivors, and its operations as a nongovernmental actor promoting reparative justice in global politics. Rachel Blumenthal traces the founding of the organization by one person, and its continued campaign for the payment of compensation to survivors after Israel left the negotiations. This book explores the degree to which the leadership entity served individual victims of the Third Reich, the Jewish public, or member organizations.
Book Synopsis Child Holocaust Survivors by : Robert Krell
Download or read book Child Holocaust Survivors written by Robert Krell and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of children who survived the Holocaust, whether in hiding or in labour and concentration camps, remained silent about their wartime experiences. Those who wanted to talk, were often silenced by well-meaning adults who advised them to forget the past and get on with their lives. The memories and traumas simmered for nearly forty years, each child growing into adulthood thinking they alone struggled with the problems of traumatic memory, identity confusion and other consequences. In the 1980's, there was a stirring of awareness amongst some child survivors about issues to be addressed. Small groups formed in the U.S.A. and Canada and gave birth to the child survivor movement, culminating in a large international gathering of "Hidden Children" in New York in 1991. This book comprises a compilation of talks offered to child Holocaust survivors, over a 25 year period - from the birth of self-awareness to present day awareness of the need to inform the next generations of their parent's experiences. Dasberg, Krell and Wiesel are themselves child survivors. Moskovitz founded the Los Angeles Child Survivor group following her pioneering study of child survivors. Gilbert has written and lectured extensively about children in the Holocaust. This book offers the child survivor an opportunity to reflect not only on survival but its effects. For the spouses and children it clarifies some of the dynamics unique to their families and for Mental Health professionals it provides insights into the effects of trauma as well as the remarkable resilience of traumatized children.
Book Synopsis The Prisoners of Breendonk by : James M. Deem
Download or read book The Prisoners of Breendonk written by James M. Deem and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing and captivating nonfiction account (with never-before-published photographs) offers readers an in-depth anthropological and historical look into the lives of those who suffered and survived Breendonk concentration camp during the Holocaust of World War II.
Book Synopsis The Liberation of Belgium by : Belgian Information Center (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book The Liberation of Belgium written by Belgian Information Center (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Carl's Story; The Persistence of Hope by : Von Petersen
Download or read book Carl's Story; The Persistence of Hope written by Von Petersen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-03-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of Kalman Willner, a remarkable man who survived numerous labor camps and the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau, from the time he was 14 until the age of 20. It is an account of one man's incredible, harrowing journey of courage and undying hope as he struggles to survive mankind's darkest hour, and the miraculous resiliency of the human spirit he imparts. Ultimately, it is a story of hope and grace, for he went on to live a happy and successful life. A must read for anyone interested in the humanity and inhumanity of man and the forces of good and evil. A testimonial for a new generation at a time when the few remaining witnesses of the old are slowly passing from us forever. The ultimate story of survival!
Book Synopsis One Step Ahead of Hitler by : Fred Gross
Download or read book One Step Ahead of Hitler written by Fred Gross and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred Gross knew much about the history of the Holocaust, but he didn't know his own, being a young Jewish child during those terrible years. In the late 1980s, he asked his mother to tell him the story of his family's flight from the German invasion of Belgium and the Nazi policies that would become the Holocaust. Later, his two older brothers added their memories. But this story is not simply an account of the years spent one step ahead of Hitler. It is about a little boy then grown man coming to know his own story and realizing the tenuousness of memory. Most of the Grosses' flight takes place in France during its defeat and collaboration with the Nazis, rounding up more than 75,000 Jews for deportation to the death camps. Gross and his family made it through these anguished years because of their fortitude and ingenuity and the help of brave men and women of other faiths, reverently referred to as The Righteous Among the Nations, who risked their lives standing up to their collaborationist government. One Step Ahead of Hitler is a story of survival told in words and in photographs of a journey beginning in Antwerp and ending with his freedom in America. "It is an important memoir," David P. Gushee, Distinguished Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University and author of Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust, writes in the foreword. "Some of the most shameful moments of German, French, Swiss-and human-history are recorded here, not for the first time, but in a deeply personal way by someone who experienced their effects as a small child."
Book Synopsis At the Mind's Limits by : Jean Amery
Download or read book At the Mind's Limits written by Jean Amery and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Amery (1921-1978) was born in Vienna and in 1938 emigrated to Belgium, where he joined the Resistance. He was caught by the Germans in 1943, tortured by the SS, and survived the next two years in the concentration camps. In five autobiographical essays, Amery describes his survival--mental, moral, and physical--through the enormity and horror of the Holocaust.
Download or read book Survival written by Israel J. Rosengarten and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated into English for the first time, this book is a personal story of a teenage boy in the concentration camps of the Holocaust. Israel Rosengarten writes with no historical pretension beyond the insight his own experience provides about everyday life and the horrors of the camps. His memoir begins with his deportation in 1942 to the Belgium concentration camp of Breendonk at the age of sixteen and follows his movements through a series of camps until 1945. The book concludes with the Auschwitz death march and the author's return to Belgium, only to discover that he was the lone survivor of a family of seven. Rosengarten survived his 1,000 days of incarceration through incredible coincidences, miracles, and by his fierce struggle to emerge from this atrocious nightmare.
Book Synopsis Out of Chaos by : Elaine Saphier Fox
Download or read book Out of Chaos written by Elaine Saphier Fox and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in Out of Chaos forms a profound testament to lost and found lives that are translated into compelling reading. The collection illuminates brief or elongated moments, fragments of memory and experience, what the great Holocaust writer Ida Fink called “a scrap of time.” In all, the anthology expresses survivors’ memories and reactions to a wide range of experiences as they survived in so many European settings, from Holland, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Greece, Yugoslavia, Poland, and France. The writers recall being on the run between different countries, escaping over mountains, hiding and even sometimes forgetting their Jewish identities in convents and rescuers’ homes and hovels, basements and attics. Some were left on their own; others found themselves embroiled in rescuer family conflicts. Some writers chose to write story clusters, each one capturing a moment or incident and often disconnected by memory or temporal and spatial divides.
Book Synopsis The Indescribable and the Undiscussable by : Dan Bar-On
Download or read book The Indescribable and the Undiscussable written by Dan Bar-On and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serious difficulties arise when people try to make sense of their feelings, behavior, and discourse in everyday life and, especially, after traumatic experiences. Two groups of impediments are identified: the "indescribable" is demonstrated by a group of pathfinders working through their different maps of mind and nature; by individuals trying to understand and integrate a first heart attack into their previous life experiences. The "undiscussable" is highlighted in the intergenerational transmission of traumatic experiences in the families of Holocaust survivors and Nazi perpetrators. By providing a unique way of looking at life experiences, embedded in a variety of social contexts, this book suggests a new psychosocial theoretical framework which can be used by both laymen and professionals when confronted by troublesome issues that require acknowledgement.
Download or read book The Hidden Children written by Jane Marks and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They hid wherever they could for as long as it took the Allies to win the war -- Jewish children, frightened, alone, often separated from their families. For months, even years, they faced the constant danger of discovery, fabricating new identities at a young age, sacrificing their childhoods to save their lives. These secret survivors have suppressed these painful memories for decades. Now, in The Hidden Children, twenty-three adult survivors share their moving wartime experiences -- some for the first time. There is Rosa, who hid in an impoverished one-room farmhouse with three others, sleeping on a clay pallet behind a stove; Renee, who posed as a Catholic and was kept in a convent by nuns who knew her secret; and Richard, who lived in a closet with his family for thirteen months. Their personal stories of belief and determination give a voice, at last, to the forgotten. Inspiring and life-affirming, The Hidden Children is an unparalleled document of witness, discovery, and the miracle of human courage.
Book Synopsis Our Promised Land by : Charles Selengut
Download or read book Our Promised Land written by Charles Selengut and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Promised Land takes readers inside radical Israeli settlements to explore how they were formed, what the people in them believe, and their role in the Middle East today. Charles Selengut analyzes the emergence of the radical Israeli Messianic Zionist movement, which advocates Jewish settlement and sovereignty over the whole of biblical Israel as a religious obligation and as the means of world transformation. The movement has established scores of controversial settlements throughout the contested West Bank, bringing more than 300,000 Jews to the area. Messianic Zionism is a fundamentalist movement but wields considerable political power. Our Promised Land, which draws on years of research and interviews in these settlements, offers an intimate and nuanced look at Messianic Zionism, life in the settlements, connections with the worldwide Christian community, and the impact on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Selengut offers an in-depth exploration of a topic that is often mentioned in the headlines but little understood.
Book Synopsis Fleeing the Swastika by : Faye Cukier
Download or read book Fleeing the Swastika written by Faye Cukier and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1: Four luxury weeks in Antwerp, Belgium. Though affidavits in hand far from quota, endless lines to leave for U.S. or stay. Vati arrived before Kristallnacht. Life downhill! Chapter 2: First apartment without registration. Living illegally and clandestinely in perpetual fear of deportation by Belgian police back to Germany. Chapter 3: Constantly changing domiciles. Money getting tight. Teach English with own devised method. Mounting anti-Semitism in Antwerp. Begging Belgian authorities for 4-6 weeks extension. Arrest at dawn by Belgian police. Chapter 4: This forced us to leave Antwerp's first comfy apartment. Bittersweet romantic interludes. Unrelenting futile emigration attempts. Chapter 5: Poland invaded! Join first dancing class for the stage. Learn to speak French well. Chapter 6: Continued giving English lessons. Seriously study dancing. Nazis occupied Denmark. Met black prophet. Chapter 7: Overnight Germans attack Belgium. Flucht from Antwerp to the French Coast. Three adventurous, exciting, terrifying weeks. First glimpse of Atlantic Ocean in Ostende. Failed desperate attempt at crossing Channel to England. Chapter 8: Vati's hair-raising experience with a Stuka dive-bomber. Mutti's impulsive decision to leave coastal villa on foot. Chapter 9: On the road again, strafed by Nazi planes. I temporarily lost my parents. Agonizing journey. Chapter 10: Mutti becomes mean due to constant terror and starvation. Walking, walking, we reached deserted Dunkirk. Chapter 11: Sudden appearance of British "Tommies". Back to Belgium. Stumbling into coastal tavern. German military aristocrat, not guessing I'm Jewish. Begging for one farewell kiss to life before fighting. Not granted, self-triumphant. Chapter 12: Reached Bruges, lace capital. Developed nasty blister. Foot sore, weary. Reached Ghent. Returned to Antwerp apartment after three weeks of lost endeavors. Chapter 13: Met handsome, charming Simon London, Antwerp diamond dealer, close to Vati's age. Felt first flame of real love. Became his protégée and courtier. Chapter 14: German military shopping in Jewish stores, Antwerp. Could converse easily. My life great! Made money in diamond business. Learned quickly. Romance with Simon, much to Mutti's disgust. Chapter 15: Dawn arrest by German military. Finding my forbidden list of jewelry. Vati and I dragged downtown. Interrogation by Herr Hauptmann. Through charm and ingenious lie both exonerated. Summons for deportation. Torn between hiding at Simon's or giving ourselves up (at Mutti's urging). I chose my parents. Chapter 16: Deportation transport by train. Fear of the unknown until Belgian Limburg arrival. Mayor of village Hoeselt arranged for housing. Simon visits from Antwerp-brings my bike. Chapter 17: Village nuns teach me sewing. Second nasty encounter with Feldkommandant in Hasselt. Limburg to reach Antwerp where Simon ended our relationship-Heartbreaking! Chapter 18: Uncle Manny dies of pneumonia at home. Cousin Maurice makes me feel better. Predicts my eventual demise if captured again. Chapter 19: From Antwerp to Hoeselt. Erika (an acquaintance) threw herself in front of train before my eyes. Vati had to disappear for safety. Religion discussion with landlord's schoolgirl daughter about unfairness of cruelty to Jews. Chapter 20: Release from Limburg to Brussels. Profitable gold jewelry manufacturing business. U.S. enters war. Forced to call on Gestapo Headquarters. The Buts couple, righteous Gentiles, helped in many ways. Compelled to wear yellow star. Chapter 21: My hair dyed blonde. After blackmail, fled to live with Mrs. Schwartz and her family. Endured the sight of her son-in-law's murder by SS. Her daughter and grandson taken away by them while we were there, shivering. The Buts saved us, but we had to move again. At last, found new apartment on Chaussee de Louvain with lovely verandah for writing and hiding. Thanks to the Buts for protecting our entire being, we survived thus far.
Book Synopsis Such a Beautiful Sunny Day ... by : Barbara Engelking
Download or read book Such a Beautiful Sunny Day ... written by Barbara Engelking and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews seeking refuge in the Polish countryside, 1942-1945.
