The Journey Back From Hell Memoirs Of Concentration Camp Survivors

Author : Anton Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1982925183

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The Journey Back from Hell: Memoirs of Concentration Camp Survivors by Anton Gill Pdf

'A thoughtful, caring book, full of sociological and psychological insight' - Sunday Times All these years on, how do the survivors of the most horrific episode in world history regard their wartime experiences, and how have they come to terms with their memories? How did their experience of the Nazi concentration camps change them emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, and politically? And what are their feelings about their former tormentors today? In talking to some 120 survivors in 14 different countries -- including political prisoners and resistance fighters -- Anton Gill has produced a masterpiece of oral history that is both an account of the survivors' lives after liberation and a testament to their courage. First published in 1988, each experience of the 'journey back from hell' is unique, and readers are free to draw their own conclusions from what the survivors tell them. But the combined effect of the stories is so poignant and important to the core experience of the 20th century that nobody can afford to turn away -- or to forget. 'Brilliant, compelling...an inspiration' - Mail on Sunday 'Excellent' - Dirk Bogarde, Daily Telegraph Anton Gill has been a freelance writer since 1984, specialising in European contemporary history but latterly branching out into historical fiction. He is the winner of the H H Wingate Award for non-fiction for 'The Journey Back From Hell'. He is also the author of 'Into Darkness', 'Dance Between the Flames' and 'An Honourable Defeat'.

Author : Anton Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000009106620

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Collected reminiscences of former concentration camp inmates.

Author : Anton Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0517075482

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The Journey Back from Hell by Anton Gill Pdf

Author : Eugene Hollander
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0881256870

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From the Hell of the Holocaust by Eugene Hollander Pdf

From The Hell of the Holocaust is an extraordinary autobiographical narrative of survival during the Holocaust. The tale is made even more compelling by the highly unusual circumstance that the author and his wife, though separated during the war, both managed to survive and, once reunited, were able to take up their lives together, raising a family and finding success and security in a new country. Eugene Hollander was born and raised in a family that was both prosperous and religiously observant. Soon after Hungary entered the war as an ally of Germany, Hollander, like most other young Jewish men, was drafted into an army labor battalion. Although he was able to escape to Budapest and rejoin his wife for a time, worse awaited the Hollanders when the Hungarian fascists began deporting Jews to Auschwitz and other extermination camps. Hollander vividly describes the psychic and physical suffering, pervasive terror, and irrational brutality of life in Nazi work camps. He regained his freedom after the war and was reunited again with his wife in Budapest, where he began a career as a businessman. Eventually they came to the United States. Eugene Hollander's story is a powerful human document and a testimonial to the courage and vision of the human spirit. Both scholars and ordinary readers will find it fascinating and valuable.

Author : Judith Sterberg Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1093601507

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In the Hell of Auschwitz by Judith Sterberg Newman Pdf

Sternberg, along with her mother, two sisters, three brothers, a brother-in-law, a niece, an aunt and uncle, and her fiancé all entered into the hell of Auschwitz. She was the only one to leave alive again. At five o'clock on February 23, 1942, Nazi police, armed with rifles surrounded the hospital where Sternberg worked. Time had run out for the Jewish inhabitants of Breslau. There had been ten thousand Jewish inhabitants in the city prior to the rise of Nazis. By the end of the war only thirty-eight had escaped the gas chambers of the Nazi concentration camps. Sternberg's book relates episode after episode of events where she should have been killed, but for whatever reason, she was spared. Much has been written of the horrific events that occurred in Nazi Germany, yet it is rare that you are able to hear of these stories written by survivors themselves. Sternberg's book is therefore an invaluable source that uncovers the dark days that she spent in hell. In the Hell of Auschwitz is a fascinating book that provides insights into the worst horrors of the Second World War. Although at points it is a difficult read, it should be read by everyone so that such horrors will never be allowed to occur again. After the war Judith Sternberg Newman married Senek Newman, a fellow concentration camp survivor, and emigrated to the United States 1947. She began writing her account immediately after arriving in the United States. She worked as a nurse in Providence, Rhode Island, until her retirement. In the Hell of Auschwitz was first published in 1963. Newman passed away in 2008.

Author : Leslie Schwartz,Marc David Bonagura
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783643903686

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Surviving the Hell of Auschwitz and Dachau by Leslie Schwartz,Marc David Bonagura Pdf

Leslie Schwartz, born in Hungary in 1930, is a teenage survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau. He lost his entire immediate family in the Holocaust. His lifelong search for wholeness led him back to Germany, where his dream now is to leave a legacy of healing and conflict resolution. In 2013, Schwartz will be awarded Germany's highest civilian honor - The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Book jacket.

Author : Robert Krell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351291828

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Medical and Psychological Effects of Concentration Camps on Holocaust Survivors by Robert Krell Pdf

This unique research bibliography is offered in honor of Leo Eitinger of Oslo, Norway. Dr. Eitinger fled to Norway in 1939, at the start of the World War II. He was caught and deported to Auschwitz, where, among others, he operated on Elie Wiesel who has written the foreword to this volume. After the war, Eitinger became a pioneering researcher on a subject from which many shied away. His contributions to understanding of the experience of massive psychological trauma have inspired others to do similar work. His many books and papers are listed in this special volume of the acclaimed bibliographic series edited by Israel W. Charny of The Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem. In order to acquaint users of this bibliography with the topic, two introductory articles are offered. The first is titled "Survivors and Their Families" and deals with the impact of the Holocaust on individuals. The second, "Psychiatry and the Holocaust," examines the general impact of the Holocaust on the field of psychiatry. Robert Krell writes that in general the psychiatric literature has reflected critically on the survivor due to preconceived notions held by many mental health professionals. For many years, the exploration of victims' psychopathology obscured the remarkable adaptation made by some survivors. The problems experienced by survivors and possible approaches to treatment were entirely absent from mainstream psychiatric textbooks such as the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Fifty years of observations about survivors of the concentration camps and other survivors of the Holocaust (in hiding, as partisans, in slave labor camps) has provided a new body of medical and psychiatric literature. This comprehensive bibliography contains a plethora of references to significant pieces of literature regarding the Holocaust and its effects on survivors. It will be of inestimable value to physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers, along with historians, sociologists, and Holocaust studies specialists.

Author : Judith Sternberg Newman
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786255778

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In The Hell Of Auschwitz; The Wartime Memoirs Of Judith Sternberg Newman [Illustrated Edition] by Judith Sternberg Newman Pdf

Includes 204 photos, plans and maps illustrating The Holocaust Despite the Nazi oppression of all Jews in the lands under their control, Judith Sternberg Newman and her family were hugely fortunate to have managed get permission to settle in Paraguay in 1940. However their escape was blocked by the German authorities who refused to provide an exit visa, from that moment on, as the author notes, “fate turned against us”. As the author relates in these horrific memoirs are the torments, brutality and death at Auschwitz; the treatment that left here by the end of the war as the only surviving member of her family. She emigrated to America in 1947 where she was able to practise at her chosen profession in nursing and raise a family.

Author : Roxane Christ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 9781418497477

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I Am a Hero, I Am a Survivor by Roxane Christ Pdf

There are three factors in this book which should be taken into consideration by the reader. Firstly, not all Jews are equal - the rich ones had the opportunity to survive because they chose to use their wealth to save their lives. Secondly, Jews are not equal inasmuch as whether they are issued from different backgrounds, solidarity is not found amongst them. And finally, when it comes to avenge their suffering, they will do it with only accepting and resenting the pain of their vengeful acts. throughout the last episodes of the Second World War. What is also evident however, is that there are no animosity, no remorse, no wanting of rewards for heroism on the part of Lou Van Coevorden. He is now one of the last survivors of the concentration camps in Germany and when he saw the downfall of Auschwitz his glee couldn't be contained but neither could it be expressed. Lou Van Coevorden was spent, yet at the age of twenty one he was to fight for his life many times over even though the Second World War had ended. After living in hell he couldn't return to life - he needed to deny himself the vision of the faces that haunted him at every turn; the faces of those who had not been able to survive.

Author : Rosie Whitehouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787385207

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The People on the Beach by Rosie Whitehouse Pdf

One summer's night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden and fought in forests and endured death marches--now they were taking on the Royal Navy, running the British blockade of Palestine. From Eastern Europe to Israel via Germany and Italy, Rosie Whitehouse follows in the footsteps of those secret passengers, uncovering their extraordinary stories--some told for the first time. Who were those people on the beach? Where and what had they come from, and how had they survived? Why, after being liberated, did so many Jews still feel unsafe in Europe? How do we--and don't we--remember the Holocaust today? This remarkable, important book digs deep and travels far in search of answers.

Author : Roman Kent
Publisher : Vantage Press, Inc
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 053315653X

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Courage was My Only Option by Roman Kent Pdf

Roman Kent is a survivor in every sense of the word. Born Roman Kniker and raised in Lodz, Poland, his happy, carefree youth was turned upside down in 1939 with the arrival of the German Army literally at his familys doorsteps. Courage Was My Only Option is the heartrending but ultimately uplifting story of one man's journey to hell and back. In classic rags to riches style, Kent uses the hard-learned lessons of his youth and time spent in concentration camps to become first a successful businessman in the U.S., then an internationally known voice for Holocaust survivors. Whether he is relating the story of the beloved family dog, Lala (who would also fall victim to Nazi cruelty) or recounting his work with Presidents, Senators, Ambassadors, and a multitude of foreign dignitaries (Bill Clinton and Al Gore among them) to restore the rights and lost dignity of his fellow survivors, Kent's tale will become an inspiration to all who read his life story.

Author : J. David Knottnerus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317252689

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Ritual as a Missing Link by J. David Knottnerus Pdf

Up to now, ritual has been under-utilised for studying human behaviour. This book narrows the gap in our understanding of the social causes and consequences of our actions by focusing on the ritualised behaviours that define much of our daily lives. Knottnerus breaks new ground by comprehensively describing structural ritualistic theory. He shows how structural reproduction has occurred throughout the world, how rituals can be strategically used and how power can influence rituals, and how the disruption and reconstitution of ritual is of crucial importance for human beings. This book shows that ritual provides a missing link in sociology and helps us better explain the extreme complexity of human action and social reality.

Author : Martin Small,Vic Shayne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781510718715

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Remember Us by Martin Small,Vic Shayne Pdf

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 Nowogródek forests, from the Mauthausen concentration camp to life as a displaced person in Italy, and from fighting the Egyptian army in a tiny Israeli kibbutz in 1948 to starting a new life in a new world in New York, this book encompasses the mythical “hero’s journey” in very real historical events. Through the eyes of ninety-one-year-old Holocaust survivor Martin Small, we learn that these priceless memories that are too painful to remember are also too painful to forget.

Author : Erna F. Rubinstein
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081496262

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The Survivor in Us All by Erna F. Rubinstein Pdf

Recounts "Ruth's" experiences as a Polish Jew who, with her three sisters, survived the concentration camps where her father, mother, and young brother perished.

Author : Jacob Biber,Nathan Kravetz
Publisher : Millefleurs
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89051349926

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A Triumph of the Spirit by Jacob Biber,Nathan Kravetz Pdf

Memoirs of ten Holocaust survivors: Itzchok Gochman, Halina Zemanska Laster, Yechiel M. Strohly, Harry Parzen, Ruth Josovitz Rosenblum, Rose Milder, Leon Faigenbam, Abraham Mahler, Selig Schwitzer, and Eva Cherniak Biber. They came from Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, and Ukraine, and are now members of a Survivors Group in Pembroke Pines, Florida. They relate their experiences in various ghettos, labor camps, and concentration camps.