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Survival artist : a memoir of the Holocaust / Eugene Bergman ; foreword by Leon W. Wells.

Van Pelt Library DS134.72.B47 A3 2009
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bergman, Eugene.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Bergman, Eugene--Childhood and youth.
Bergman, Eugene.
Holocaust survivors--Biography.
Holocaust survivors.
Jews--Poland--Biography.
Jews.
Jewish ghettos.
History.
Poland.
Jewish ghettos--Poland--History--20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.
Poznań (Poland)--Biography.
Poznań (Poland).
Genre:
Biographies.
Personal narratives -- Polish.
Personal narratives -- Jewish.
Personal narratives.
Physical Description:
x, 194 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2009]
Summary:
"This memoir describes the experiences of a Holocaust survivor who escaped death by living a childhood of constant vigil and dodging the threat of a Nazi capture. There are accounts of the family's narrow escapes to (and from) the Lodz, Warsaw, and Czestochowa ghettos and how members of the family survived through luck, deception, and will to live"--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
I The End of an Idyll
A Foray into History 11
Growing Up in Poznan 15
The Germans Arrive 30
Escape to Lodz, Escape from Lodz 38
II Life in the Warsaw Ghetto
From One Ghetto to Another 42
The German Professor 53
My Father the Smuggler 56
The Real and Unreal Worlds 60
Vignettes 64
The Siege and the Escape 72
III Dodging the Predators
Rescued by Dadek 82
Fobbing Off the Landlord 101
Mysteries of Mimicry 104
The Ghetto Revolts 113
Forays from the Kitchen into the Jungle 117
IV From the Uprising to Liberation
Saved from Drowning and Shooting 130
Inside Insurgent Warsaw 136
I Become a Prisoner of War 142
My Life Among the Punks 148
The Liberation Comes 162.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780786441341
0786441348
OCLC:
263300383

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