Voices From The Bialystok Ghetto

Author : Michael Nevins
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781532088650

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Voices from the Bialystok Ghetto by Michael Nevins Pdf

For more than 70 years a diary that was written in Bialystok during World War II was virtually unnoticed and about to be discarded with trash when someone looked inside and discerned its historic value. It was written between 1939 and 1943 by young David Spiro (in Polish Dawid Szpiro) who probably died during his city’s ghetto uprising against the Nazis. The diary described life in the city during Russian and then German governance from the perspective of an ordinary young man - certainly not a charismatic leader. As David explained, “If someone reads my diary in the future, will they be able to believe something like that? Surely not, they will say poppycock and lies, but this is the truth, disgusting and terrible; for me it’s a reality.” With permission from the current owners, much of David Spiro’s poignant first-hand account is reproduced here along with memoirs written by other Bialystokers who lived and mostly died during those terrible times.

Author : David G. Roskies
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300245356

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Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto by David G. Roskies Pdf

The powerful writings and art of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these works from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust from the perspective of its first interpreters, the victims themselves. Gathered clandestinely by an underground ghetto collective called Oyneg Shabes, the collection of reportage, diaries, prose, artwork, poems, jokes, and sermons captures the heroism, tragedy, humor, and social dynamics of the ghetto. Miraculously surviving the devastation of war, this extraordinary archive encompasses a vast range of voices—young and old, men and women, the pious and the secular, optimists and pessimists—and chronicles different perspectives on the topics of the day while also preserving rapidly endangered cultural traditions. Described by David G. Roskies as “a civilization responding to its own destruction,” these texts tell the story of the Warsaw Ghetto in real time, against time, and for all time.

Author : Ḥaiḳah Grosman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041057469

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The Underground Army by Ḥaiḳah Grosman Pdf

Author : Sam Solasz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 0988359138

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Angel of the Ghetto by Sam Solasz Pdf

Angel of the Ghetto tells the remarkable story of Sam Solasz, a boy born into a warm and loving Jewish family in Poland in 1928. Sam inhabited a protected world until the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. which tore his world apart. Ripped from his family, young Sam lived a nomadic and dangerous life. He had to learn to depend on his resourcefulness and the keen ability he had to size up people and events around him. Trapped in the Bialystok Ghetto, in inhuman conditions and hounded by the brutal Gestapo, Sam helped other starving and fearful souls. He did this by risking his life each day to smuggle in food, medicines and other desperately needed goods. He also managed to sneak arms into the ghetto for the Jewish underground in preparation for the Uprising against the Nazis. As the only member of his immediate family to survive the Holocaust, this extraordinary boy grew into an extraordinary man. Sam went on to fight for the independence of Israel in the Israeli Defense Forces and eventually achieved his dream and made his way to New York City. He arrived with ten dollars in his pocket. Once there he used his strength and hard-won business savvy to build a highly successful business as well as a new and loving family. This unforgettable memoir is a different kind of Holocaust account. It is a gripping tale of love and loss, of survival and courage, but also of reconnection, regeneration and hope.

Author : Chaika Grossman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1988-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 089604078X

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The Underground Army by Chaika Grossman Pdf

Author : Tomasz Wiśniewski
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073011707

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Jewish Bialystok and Surroundings in Eastern Poland by Tomasz Wiśniewski Pdf

"Countless men and women around the world today think of themselves as "Bialystokers," whether by birth or inheritance. In recent years, growing numbers of them have taken the trouble to make their way to northeastern Poland to visit - or revisit - the region that has been called "the heart of European Jewry," This Guide for Yesterday and Today is for them, as well as for students everywhere of the lost Jewish heritage of Poland. At the outbreak of World War II, more than three-quarters of all the Jews in the world either lived in Poland, or on former Polish lands, or were descendants of Jews who had lived there. The city of Bialystok alone counted at least 50,000 Jews, and refugees from the German invasion of Western Poland nearly tripled that number by November 1939. Today, only half a dozen Jews live in Bialystok...This ... book, which contains: the history of Białystok, Tykocin, and 30 nearby towns and villages; tours of Białystok by foot and auto to suit various time schedules; individual names and dates from cemeteries and and an old guidebook; a chronology of Jewish life in Białystok, starting in the 15th century; short biographies of notable Białystok Jews; 77 photographs and 25 maps... "--Back cover.

Author : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Holocaust survivors
ISBN : 9780684865256

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Witness by Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies Pdf

In this companion book to the PBS documentary scheduled to air in May, the realities of the Holocaust emerge through the remarkable accounts of 27 eyewitnesses. Photos.

Author : Michał Grynberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : OCLC:1151788122

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Words to Outlive Us by Michał Grynberg Pdf

Author : Belle Millo
Publisher : Belle Millo
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780969125693

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Voices of Winnipeg Holocaust Survivors by Belle Millo Pdf

Author : Yitzhak ("Antek") Zuckerman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520912594

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A Surplus of Memory by Yitzhak ("Antek") Zuckerman Pdf

In 1943, against utterly hopeless odds, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto rose up to defy the Nazi horror machine that had set out to exterminate them. One of the leaders of the Jewish Fighting Organization, which led the uprisings, was Yitzhak Zuckerman, known by his underground pseudonym, Antek. Decades later, living in Israel, Antek dictated his memoirs. The Hebrew publication of Those Seven Years: 1939-1946 was a major event in the historiography of the Holocaust, and now Antek's memoirs are available in English. Unlike Holocaust books that focus on the annihilation of European Jews, Antek's account is of the daily struggle to maintain human dignity under the most dreadful conditions. His passionate, involved testimony, which combines detail, authenticity, and gripping immediacy, has unique historical importance. The memoirs situate the ghetto and the resistance in the social and political context that preceded them, when prewar Zionist and Socialist youth movements were gradually forged into what became the first significant armed resistance against the Nazis in all of occupied Europe. Antek also describes the activities of the resistance after the destruction of the ghetto, when 20,000 Jews hid in "Aryan" Warsaw and then participated in illegal immigration to Palestine after the war. The only extensive document by any Jewish resistance leader in Europe, Antek's book is central to understanding ghetto life and underground activities, Jewish resistance under the Nazis, and Polish-Jewish relations during and after the war. This extraordinary work is a fitting monument to the heroism of a people.

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780330822

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Voices from the Holocaust by Jon E. Lewis Pdf

The testament to a tragedy. Voices from The Holocaust follows the whole history of the 'Shoah' from Hitler's rise to power to the Nuremburg trials, but of course the exterminations and death camps of 'The Final Solution' take centre stage. It tells the story from the perspective of the people who were there, and were witnesses - on both sides - of the horror. While some of the eye-witnesses are well-known, such as Anne Frank, Primo Levi and Heinrich Himmler, the book includes recollections of camp inmates, SS Totenkopf guards and the British soldiers who liberated Belsen. Shocking, powerful and personal, Voices from the Holocaust retells history, written by those who were there.

Author : Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0853034079

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The Bialystok Ghetto: Tales of Life and Death by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk Pdf

This is an account of the author's experiences immediately following Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, and her subsequent life in the Bialystok ghetto, continuing through her deportation to Stutthof concentration camp and, eventually, to Auschwitz. Sara does not dwell on the atrocities but in a series of vignettes, the author draws the reader in to focus on the ways in which human beings survive in such harsh conditions.

Author : Ruth Rubin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252069188

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Voices of a People by Ruth Rubin Pdf

"A collection of song texts in Yiddish and English, as well as a selection of tunes Rubin transcribed, this volume brings the Jews' ancient, itinerant culture alive through children's songs, dancing songs, and songs about love and courtship, poverty and work, crime and corruption, immigration and the dream of a homeland. Rubin's notes and annotations weave each text into the larger story of the Jewish experience." --Book Jacket.

Author : Jenny Robertson
Publisher : Azure Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029478893

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Don't Go to Uncle's Wedding by Jenny Robertson Pdf

When the Nazis invaded Poland, the Jewish population in Warsaw was the second largest in the world. Within five years it had been annihilated. We still know little about the Holocaust and specifically the ghetto. In this work Jenny Robertson weaves together background information and many personal accounts - from rabbis and lay-people, adults and children - to provide an entry into a doomed, enclosed world. The volume is about the quest to find God in the middle of a tragedy without precedent, the questioning and deepening of faith, and the opening up of new ways of understanding.

Author : Charles Zachariah Goldberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1578690048

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Tales of Bialystok by Charles Zachariah Goldberg Pdf

Charles Zachariah Goldberg left Bialystok in 1906 at the age of 20 in the aftermath of a deadly pogrom in Bialystok. Published later in life, his stories about growing up in Bialystok are tales of the dreadful, the humorous, of family life, and of his journey to America. all in a voice at once familiar, plainspoken, direct and honest.