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The Jews of Poznań
The Holocaust swept away the centuries-old Jewish community of Pozna�������± in western Poland. Zbigniew Pakula traces the history of that community, its institutions, and its response to crucial but little-known events like the expulsion of Polish Jews from Germany in 1938. The Jews of Pozna�������± however, is not only about destruction, but also about survival and the way that the memory of a lost world can endure as a cornerstone of individual identity. Pakula locates the remaining Jews of Pozna�������±, now living scattered around the world. He accompanies them as they reminisce, meet old friends, or return to walk again the streets of what will always be their city.
For Love of Life
During the Nazi occupation of Belgium in 1942, Leah, aged three, and her older sister, Sylvia, aged seven, were hidden in a convent cellar. Their mother reassured Sylvia that at the end of the war she would be re-united with them. Sylvia had also been instructed to keep alive for both girls the spirit of what had been their joyful extended family, and their inherent Jewish background.
By a Twist of History
In a twist of historical circumstances and due to what he later saw as misguided beliefs, he joined the Polish foreign service and was posted in Moscow, London (where he also graduated from London University), Korea, Cambodia and Canada, in the latter two countries as head of mission. This part of By a Twist of History includes the dramatic history of the Polish art treasures spirited out of Nazi-occupied Poland, and kept for many years in Canada. Their return to Poland during his term of office was the highlight of his career. The book then describes his work at a fairly senior level in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw, where he dealt with English speaking countries.
An End to Childhood
This memoir, written as fiction, but based on fact, describes the fear-filled efforts of a pair of Polish adolescents, brother and sister, to survive in secrecy and constant anxiety in Lvov at a time when Jews were being rounded up and sent to the Ghetto - or worse. They have only their false identity papers, their few trusted contacts and their own wits to help them conceal their Jewish background and keep one step ahead of the German authorities. Miriam Akavia, who experienced at first hand similar terrors and anxieties, skillfully conveys the fluctuations in mood from the natural optimism and high spirits of youth to the painfully learned caution and dissembling forced upon them by their situation.
A Life Sentence of Memories
Memoirs of a Jew born in Konin, Poland in 1927. Describes the German occupation in 1939, after which the family was deported to the ghetto of Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski. In late 1940, Hahn's parents, sister, and one brother were deported to Treblinka and killed. Hahn and another brother escaped from the ghetto, but were eventually caught and sent to work in a nearby factory. In summer 1942 they were sent to Auschwitz (from which they escaped for a short time), then to the Jaworzno labor camp, on a death march to Blechhammer, from there to the Litomerice labor camp, and then on a death transport to Landeshut, where they were liberated. The brothers emigrated to England in 1946.
To Forgive-- But Not Forget
Combines historical analysis and reflection with occasional citations of the survivor author's experiences. Deals with antisemitism, political racism and social Darwinism, Weimar Germany, Hitler and his ideology, the Final Solution, the various roles of people during the Holocaust (collaborators, bystanders, resisters, deniers, non-Jewish victims, and rescuers), children, the end of the Third Reich and war crimes trials, the question of divine vs. human responsibility, racism and neo-Nazism in the U.S., and Holocaust denial. Warns of the danger of a serious revival of antisemitism in the U.S.
Life Strictly Forbidden
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 life of this influential author and the reality of living in Europe under Hitler. The Marianowicz family was wealthy bourgeoisie but at the age of 16, Antoni was forced to live in the Warsaw ghetto. After 18 months, he fled from the ghetto and managed to survive for three years (1942-45) hiding out in a small provincial town near Warsaw where, paradoxically, he and other Jewish refugees hid in a glass factory that belonged to the Waffen-SS.
A Child Alone
Memoirs of an Austrian Jew, born in 1930 in Vienna. Pp. 1-45 relate events of her life in Vienna until her departure to England in a "Kindertransport" in June 1939. Her father was arrested by the Nazis in 1939 and never heard from again. Both her parents did not survive the war. After the war she remained in England.
From the Edge of the World
From the Edge of the World is an anthology of largely unpublished work written by Jewish refugees who came to the UK in the 1930s, fleeing from the threat of Nazism. The idea for this collection was inspired by the story that the author's grandmother, herself a refugee, had written entitled, 'The Portrait'. The anthology is of a highly personal nature. It brings together writings by ordinary people who describe their day-to-day experiences of living under the Nazi regime, or recount their impressions of their 'new life' in England. They describe the trauma of living in Nazi-occupied Germany and how events affected everyday living, whilst worrying about events elsewhere.
Surviving the Nazis, Exile, and Siberia
Edith Sekules was born in 1916, into a family which was part of the then vibrant Jewish community of Vienna. At that time there were almost 200,000 Jews living in that city; today they number only a few thousand.
