Confronting Devastation
Author: Ferenc Laczó
Publisher: Azrieli Holocaust Survivor
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781988065687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn anthology of excerpts from twenty memoirs who survived the Holocaust in Hungary.
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Sustaining Memories: Stories of Canadian Holocaust Survivors
Author: Multiple authors
Publisher:
Published: 2020-01-14
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781988065571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Azrieli Foundation established the Sustaining Memories Project to help survivors write their stories. A unique partnership between survivors and volunteer writing partners who were trained to work with Holocaust survivors on recording and transcribing their stories, volunteers spent countless hours on these testimonies. The strength of the bonds that form when a volunteer and a survivor create a memoir, of the emotional challenges that a survivor faces in the telling and the understanding, and the insight that the listener experiences were all part of an incredible journey. Excerpts of these co-written memoirs, never before published, are produced in this anthology to give readers a wide range of understanding of the varieties of experiences of Holocaust survivors. Sustaining Memories gives voice to Canadian Jews who suffered through ghettos, camps, hiding, fighting in the underground, as refugees in foreign countries or passing as non-Jews in daily fear of betrayal. Following their liberation, survivors often had to congregate in displaced persons camps, where many married, had children and waited years for countries to offer them new homes. Some would end up in the detention camps of Cyprus on their way to pre-state Israel; others found themselves locked behind the Iron Curtain for decades. Between 1946 and the 1980s, they all built new lives in Canada.
By Chance Alone
Author: Max Eisen
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-01-07
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1488059748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn award-winning, internationally bestselling Holocaust memoir in the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz In the spring of 1944, gendarmes forcibly removed Tibor “Max” Eisen and his family from their home, brought them to a brickyard and eventually loaded them onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. At fifteen years of age, Eisen survived the selection process and was inducted into the camp as a slave laborer. More than seventy years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, By Chance Alone details Eisen’s story of survival: the backbreaking slave labor in Auschwitz I, the infamous death march in January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation and Eisen’s journey of physical and psychological healing. Ultimately, the book offers a message of hope as the author finds his way to a new life.
At Great Risk
Author: Fishel Goldig
Publisher: Azrieli Holocaust Survivor
Published: 2021-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781989719107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHolocaust survivors write about how they were rescued by those who refused to stand by during the war.
All But My Life
Author: Gerda Weissmann Klein
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 1995-03-31
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1466812427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll 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 reader on a terrifying journey. Gerda's serene and idyllic childhood is shattered when Nazis march into Poland on September 3, 1939. Although the Weissmanns were permitted to live for a while in the basement of their home, they were eventually separated and sent to German labor camps. Over the next few years Gerda experienced the slow, inexorable stripping away of "all but her life." By the end of the war she had lost her parents, brother, home, possessions, and community; even the dear friends she made in the labor camps, with whom she had shared so many hardships, were dead. Despite her horrifying experiences, Klein conveys great strength of spirit and faith in humanity. In the darkness of the camps, Gerda and her young friends manage to create a community of friendship and love. Although stripped of the essence of life, they were able to survive the barbarity of their captors. Gerda's beautifully written story gives an invaluable message to everyone. It introduces them to last century's terrible history of devastation and prejudice, yet offers them hope that the effects of hatred can be overcome.
The Nazis Knew My Name
Author: Magda Hellinger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-03-15
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1982181249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe “thought-provoking…must-read” (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped) memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindness—in the vein of A Bookshop in Berlin and The Nazi Officer’s Wife. In March 1942, twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other young women were deported as some of the first Jews to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The SS soon discovered that by putting prisoners in charge of the day-to-day accommodation blocks, they could deflect attention away from themselves. Magda was one such prisoner selected for leadership and put in charge of hundreds of women in the notorious Experimental Block 10. She found herself constantly walking a dangerously fine line: saving lives while avoiding suspicion by the SS and risking execution. Through her inner strength and shrewd survival instincts, she was able to rise above the horror and cruelty of the camps and build pivotal relationships with the women under her watch, and even some of Auschwitz’s most notorious Nazi senior officers. Based on Magda’s personal account and completed by her daughter’s extensive research, this is “an unputdownable account of resilience and the power of compassion” (Booklist) in the face of indescribable evil.
Escape from the Edge
Author: Morris Schnitzer
Publisher: Azrieli Holocaust Survivor
Published: 2021-02-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781989719114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA memoir of a German Jewish teenager who takes on three different identities and crosses countless borders to escape death at the hands of the Nazis during World War II.
Because of Romek
Author: David Faber
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780976876328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a nonfiction, autobiographical narrative from the point of view of a teenager during the Holocaust of World War II--the riveting, true story of a young boy's survival in the face of Nazi atrocities. David Faber survived eight concentration camps between the ages of 13-18, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Bergen-Belsen. Because of Romek fulfills his promise to his dead mother to tell the world what happened. Reprint.
A Cry in Unison
Author: Judy Cohen
Publisher: Azrieli Holocaust Survivor
Published: 2020-07-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781988065700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA memoir about a young girl from Hungary who survives Auschwitz-Birkenau and other concentration camps.
The Weight of Freedom
Author: Nate Leipciger
Publisher:
Published: 2015-09
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781897470558
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"To avoid thinking I repeated the words 'after the war.' The words stuck in my mind like a mantra. After the war. The words blended into the clang of the wheels. Would there ever be an end to the war?" Nate Leipciger, a thoughtful, shy eleven-year-old boy, is plunged into an incomprehensible web of ghettos, concentration and death camps during the German occupation of Poland. As he struggles to survive, he forges a new, unbreakable bond with his father and yearns for a free future. But when he is finally liberated, the weight of his pain will not ease, and his memories remain etched in tragedy. Introspective, complicated and raw, The Weight of Freedom is Nate's journey through a past that he can never leave behind.
