Miriam yahav (1 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Scarce paperback, no ISBN, 117 pages + one folded sheet with a genealogical table ("Hourglass Tree of Uknownfather Farber"), b&w photos (pp 95-105), facsimiles of documents, NOT ex-library. Translated from the Hebrew by Hannah R. Horowitz. Faint, hardly noticeable water mark in the upper inner corner of the rear cover and last page (aforementioned folded sheet). Else interior is very good, clean and bright with firm binding and unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Cover looks shelfworn with extensive faint offset and handling marks, rubbing to edges, a short corner crease. Limited cosmetic wear on spine. -- From back cover: The author of these memoirs was a girl of 12 when World War Two broke out, and she was 14 when Bialystok, where she was born and brought up, was captured by the Germans for the second time. Two years later, after the suppression of the underground uprising and the burning of the Ghetto, the few remaining inhabitants of the Ghetto were rounded up and awaited deportation. Miriam was torn forcibly from her mother and her sister, and put onto the ''young girls' coach". From then on there began the series of hardships and being taken from place to place in the camps of torture and extermination. Towards the end of 1944, as the fighting front drew nearer, came the "departure from Auschwitz", but this did not bring with it the end of the suffering and the dangers that the seventeen-year-old girl had to contend with. Her strong character, her resourcefulness and her instinct were the qualities that sustained the author in all the stages of Hell that she went through. In February 1949 she made Aliya; she built her home and raised a family in Beer Sheva. But she never forgot the mission that was imposed on her: to survive no matter what, to continue the family chain that had been cut off, to tell the world and to give live testimony. Tzvika of blessed memory, the son of Miriam and Haim died an untimely death a year ago. Her two daughters and her ten grandchildren live in Beer Sheva. "This is my victory and this is my pride." -- Contents: A Young Girl in Auschwitz; 1939: Here Come the Russians; 1941: The Germans - the Ghetto; The Great "Aktion" : The Death of My Father; 1943: The Revolt in the Bialystok Ghetto; The Tailors of the Kulik Family; On the Way to Treblinka: The Coach of Girls Who Committed Suicide; The Eiderdown Covers in Blizin; A Jar of Ichtiol and a Rubber Tubing; Buzko's Whip; The Meeting (Poem); Auschwitz: A-15755; A Delicacy: Bread and Cabbage; A Girl for a Slice of Bread; The Shower; The Women's Camp F.K.L.: The Breakdown; Leaving Auschwitz; The Liberation; The Night of the Rape; In Prague, the Benevolent City; Missionary Attempts; The Long-Nosed Russian Soldier; The Return "Home"; Back in Poland: 43 Years Later; A Dead Town, a Land of Graves; Sweet Vengeance; My Return to That Place (Poem); After Years in Israel; I Am Here and I Am There (Poem); Epilogue: The Tragedy of Yom Kippur; Getting to Know My Mother; Family Pictures; Facsimile: Confirmation of the Author's Arrival in Auschwitz; List of Relatives Who Perished in the Holocaust; Partial List of Deportees; Timetable of Train Departures to and from Auschwitz; Appendix: Responses of Public Figures; Family Tree (inside back cover).…