The Last Eyewitnesses, Volume 2: The Children of the Holocaust Speak
edited by Jakub Gutenbaum and Agnieszka Latala translated by Fay Bussgang, Julian Bussgang and Simon Cygielski
Northwestern University Press, 2005 Cloth: 978-0-8101-2238-3 | Paper: 978-0-8101-2239-0 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-6186-3 Library of Congress Classification DS135.P63A132 1998-2005 Dewey Decimal Classification 940.5318083
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The memoirs of Jews who were children during the Nazi occupation of Poland
This book serves as a memorial to loved ones who do not even have a grave, as well as a tribute to those who risked their lives and families to save a Jewish child. A wide variety of experiences during the Nazi occupation of Poland are related with wrenching simplicity and candor, experiences that illustrate horrors and deprivation, but also present examples of courage and compassion.
These recollections-whether of hiding in forests or camouflaged bunkers, fighting with groups of partisans, enduring the horrors of concentration camps, or living in fear under disguised identities-serve as eloquent testimony to the depth, diversity, and richness of humanity under siege and offer a powerful lesson for future generations. Written by people who remained in Poland after the war, these accounts convey a great immediacy; the authors are not removed from the environment in which these experiences took place. The psychological impact on these child survivors and the difficulties they encountered even after the war are very poignant. The passing years have brought urgency to the publication of these stories, as those who wrote them are the last surviving eyewitnesses of these tumultuous events.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
JAKUB GUTENBAUM, founding president of the Association of the Children of the Holocaust in Poland, survived the Warsaw Ghetto and several Nazi concentration camps.
JULIAN and FAY BUSSGANG translated and edited the first volume of The Last Eyewitnesses: Children of the Holocaust Speak (1998), also published by Northwestern University Press.
REVIEWS
"When the children of the Holocaust speak, one must listen-then weep, pray, and cherish the memories of those who nurtured them."-Zbigniew Brzezinski
“I hope you understand how deeply I feel about this kind of literature. I consider it essential to the understanding of the Holocaust and its manifold implications.”—Elie Wiesel
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Translators' Note
Introduction
Dasha Rittenberg, née Werdygier
Celebrating Shabbat: How I Remember It
Henryk Arnold
With Weapon in Hand
Irena (Agata) Bołdok, née Likierman
Back to Being Myself!
Ilonka Fajnberg
I Found My Roots
Marian Finkielman
Wanderings
Maria Gaber-Wierny
On Romanian Papers
Ignacy Goldwasser
In the Bunkers
Janina Hincz-Kan
An Unforgettable Day in Auschwitz
Tadeusz Iger
During and after the War
Ewa Janowska-Boisse and Anna Janowska-Ciońćka, née Kleinberg
Father Never Returned from Exile
Jan Klapper-Karpiński
My Nanny
Stella Kolin, née Obremska
From a Camp to the Aryan Side
Jadwiga (Wicher) Kotowska, née Braun
The Little Smuggler
Alfred Królikowski
Helped by Żegota
Rachela Malinger
The Beginning of Hell
Maria Orwid, née Pfeffer
Father
Alina Parzęczrewska
A Good Hiding Place
Edmund Rudolf de Pellier
First in Line to Go to Heaven
Maria Perlberger-Schmuel
"They're Jews, Don't Look in That Direction!"
Janina Pietrasiak
I Am One of the Lucky Ones
Jane Prot
Fragments of Memories
Estera Rosner
They Didn't Live to See It
Joanna Sobolewska-Pyz
Searching for Traces
Sven Sonnenberg
Journey to Hell: Under Fascism
Liliana Sterling
I Still Have the Hope That Someone Will Find Me
Bronisława Szwajca, née Eisner
Among the Silesians
Regina Szymańska
Fear and Dread
Dziunia Estera Tattelbaum (vel Tajtelbaum)
Writing about Myself for the First Time
Juliusz Jerzy Tober
The Nightmare Continues
Henryka Trzcińska-Strzelecka
Hidden by My Grandfather
Bronisława Wajngarten
Run to the Woods!
Krystyna Zielińska, née Rozental
I Was to Be a Boy . . .
Wanda Ziemska
In Fear Because of My Origins
Glossary
Historical Notes
Index of Persons
Index of Places
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The Last Eyewitnesses, Volume 2: The Children of the Holocaust Speak
edited by Jakub Gutenbaum and Agnieszka Latala translated by Fay Bussgang, Julian Bussgang and Simon Cygielski
Northwestern University Press, 2005 Cloth: 978-0-8101-2238-3 Paper: 978-0-8101-2239-0 eISBN: 978-0-8101-6186-3
The memoirs of Jews who were children during the Nazi occupation of Poland
This book serves as a memorial to loved ones who do not even have a grave, as well as a tribute to those who risked their lives and families to save a Jewish child. A wide variety of experiences during the Nazi occupation of Poland are related with wrenching simplicity and candor, experiences that illustrate horrors and deprivation, but also present examples of courage and compassion.
These recollections-whether of hiding in forests or camouflaged bunkers, fighting with groups of partisans, enduring the horrors of concentration camps, or living in fear under disguised identities-serve as eloquent testimony to the depth, diversity, and richness of humanity under siege and offer a powerful lesson for future generations. Written by people who remained in Poland after the war, these accounts convey a great immediacy; the authors are not removed from the environment in which these experiences took place. The psychological impact on these child survivors and the difficulties they encountered even after the war are very poignant. The passing years have brought urgency to the publication of these stories, as those who wrote them are the last surviving eyewitnesses of these tumultuous events.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
JAKUB GUTENBAUM, founding president of the Association of the Children of the Holocaust in Poland, survived the Warsaw Ghetto and several Nazi concentration camps.
JULIAN and FAY BUSSGANG translated and edited the first volume of The Last Eyewitnesses: Children of the Holocaust Speak (1998), also published by Northwestern University Press.
REVIEWS
"When the children of the Holocaust speak, one must listen-then weep, pray, and cherish the memories of those who nurtured them."-Zbigniew Brzezinski
“I hope you understand how deeply I feel about this kind of literature. I consider it essential to the understanding of the Holocaust and its manifold implications.”—Elie Wiesel
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Translators' Note
Introduction
Dasha Rittenberg, née Werdygier
Celebrating Shabbat: How I Remember It
Henryk Arnold
With Weapon in Hand
Irena (Agata) Bołdok, née Likierman
Back to Being Myself!
Ilonka Fajnberg
I Found My Roots
Marian Finkielman
Wanderings
Maria Gaber-Wierny
On Romanian Papers
Ignacy Goldwasser
In the Bunkers
Janina Hincz-Kan
An Unforgettable Day in Auschwitz
Tadeusz Iger
During and after the War
Ewa Janowska-Boisse and Anna Janowska-Ciońćka, née Kleinberg
Father Never Returned from Exile
Jan Klapper-Karpiński
My Nanny
Stella Kolin, née Obremska
From a Camp to the Aryan Side
Jadwiga (Wicher) Kotowska, née Braun
The Little Smuggler
Alfred Królikowski
Helped by Żegota
Rachela Malinger
The Beginning of Hell
Maria Orwid, née Pfeffer
Father
Alina Parzęczrewska
A Good Hiding Place
Edmund Rudolf de Pellier
First in Line to Go to Heaven
Maria Perlberger-Schmuel
"They're Jews, Don't Look in That Direction!"
Janina Pietrasiak
I Am One of the Lucky Ones
Jane Prot
Fragments of Memories
Estera Rosner
They Didn't Live to See It
Joanna Sobolewska-Pyz
Searching for Traces
Sven Sonnenberg
Journey to Hell: Under Fascism
Liliana Sterling
I Still Have the Hope That Someone Will Find Me
Bronisława Szwajca, née Eisner
Among the Silesians
Regina Szymańska
Fear and Dread
Dziunia Estera Tattelbaum (vel Tajtelbaum)
Writing about Myself for the First Time
Juliusz Jerzy Tober
The Nightmare Continues
Henryka Trzcińska-Strzelecka
Hidden by My Grandfather
Bronisława Wajngarten
Run to the Woods!
Krystyna Zielińska, née Rozental
I Was to Be a Boy . . .
Wanda Ziemska
In Fear Because of My Origins
Glossary
Historical Notes
Index of Persons
Index of Places
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