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Remember Us, My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust

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Remember Us, My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Remember Us

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust

Summary

Remember Us is a look back at the lost world of the shtetl: a wise Zayde offering prophetic and profound words to his grandson, the rich experience of Shabbos, and the treasure of a loving family. All this is torn apart with the arrival of the Holocaust, beginning a crucible fraught with twists and turns so unpredictable and surprising that they defy any attempt to find reason within them. From work camps to the partisans of the Nowogrudek forests, from the Mauthausen concentration camp to life as a displaced person in Italy, and from fighting the Egyptian army in a ti

Table Of Contents

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Author's Note; Preface; I Live to Remember; My Little Shtetl, Maitchet; Yiddish Culture; Answering Questions with Questions; Dreaming of a New World; Shabbat Shalom; Yearning to Touch the Past; Visiting Baranowicze; The Wrong Kind of Excitement; Living with Our Differences; All on One Block; L'Chaim-To My Father; The Meaning of Tzedakah; Our World Started to Change; The German Invasion; And Then We Were Slaves; Escape from Baranowicze; Free for Now; Partisans; More Aimless Wandering; Spring; The Awakening; Viva Italia!Nowhere But PalestineA War We Would Not Lose; Where's My Visa?; America the Beautiful; Time for Reflection; The Circle Comes to a Close; I Remember; Epilogue; Afterword; Appendix; Acknowledgments; About the Author

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