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  • In the Shadow of Destruction

    In the Shadow of Destruction

    $22.95

    Recollections of Transnistria and the Illegal Immigration to Eretz Israel

    Govrin, Yosef

    This is a personal account of a young boy's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Transnistria. The descriptions are presented against the background of unfolding events, combining personal recollections with a historic overview, before, during and after the Holocaust. The...

  • Jazz Survivor

    Jazz Survivor

    $18.50

    The Story of Louis Bannet, Horn Player of Auschwitz

    Shuldman, Ken

    Jazz Survivor tells the story of Louis Bannet, the Dutch Louis Armstrong. Louis Bannet was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau during the war, but his skill as a musician saved his life: he became the 'star' of the Auschwitz Orchestra, as...

  • Jewish Refugees in Switzerland during the Holocaust

    Jewish Refugees in Switzerland during the Holocaust

    $26.50

    A Memoir of Childhood and History

    Forman, Frieda Johles

    This is the first English-language memoir of the Jewish refugee experience in wartime Switzerland focusing on children's experiences and daily life in the refugee camps. The author integrates her memories of a refugee childhood with archival and historical research, including interviews....

  • Journey Through Darkness

    Journey Through Darkness

    $24.95

    Monowitz, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald

    Berler, Willy

    The story of Willy Berler's 'Journey through Darkness' opens with the attack on the 20th Belgian convoy from Mechelen to Auschwitz, an extraordinary act of resistance. His tale then relates the arrival at Monowitz, his fortuitous transfer to the main camp of Auschwitz, and the story...

  • Lessons In Fear

    Lessons In Fear

    $22.95

    Vogler, Henryk

    Lessons in Fear and people's response to them are the subject of Vogler's ten stories set in, and in the shadow of, the labour camps of the Second World War. Vogler, himself a victim of the camps, conveys with poetic accuracy the touch, smell and taste of fear in...

  • Let him Go

    Let him Go

    $21.95

    A Danish Child in Ravensbrück and Theresienstadt
    Katznelson, Ib

    2nd Editon

    Ib Katznelson has written a remarkable and important book. Over the years I've probably read dozens of survivor accounts, if not hundreds. This one has impressed me as few others have. . Because the writing is calm and...

  • Life

    Life

    $18.95

    A Temporary Title

    Amiel, Irit

    Born in 1931 to a secular Jewish family in Poland, Irit Amiel grew up in the city of Czestochowa with its significant Jewish community of 30,000. She survived the Second World War having escaped from the ghetto and living under false Aryan papers, in various...

  • Life Strictly Forbidden

    Life Strictly Forbidden

    $26.95

    Marianowicz, Antoni

    Life Strictly Forbidden is the memoirs of the well-known Polish writer, Antoni Marianowicz, told partly through interviews with journalist Hanna Baltyn, and partly through personal recollections of his family before the War and during the Occupation. The honest, in-depth conversations with Baltyn create a unique picture of the formative...

  • Like Leaves in the Wind

    Like Leaves in the Wind

    $24.95

    Blumstein, Rita Blattberg

    This is the story of Rita Blattberg, a Jewish child from Krakow, from when the Germans invade Poland in 1939, to her deportation to the Soviet Union. It documents her time there and the colourful cast of characters that she met before returning to a hometown inhabited by...

  • Little House on Mount Carmel

    Little House on Mount Carmel

    $29.95

    Blumstein, Alexandre


    422 pages

    Copyright: 11/6/2002