Gone To Pitchipoi : a Boy's Desperate Fight For Survival In Wartime / Rubin Katz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz, Rubin, 1931- Author.

Contributor:

National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program, Funder.

Series:

Jews of Poland Series

Jews of Poland

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland--Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski--Biography.

Jewish children in the Holocaust.

Poland.

Poland--Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski.

Genre:

Biographies.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

This vivid and moving memoir describes the survival of a Jewish child in the hell of Nazi occupied Poland. Rubin Katz was born in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyskie, Poland, in 1931. This town, located in the picturesque countryside of central Poland 42 miles south of Radom, had in 1931 a population of nearly 30,000, of whom more than a third were Jews. The persistence of traditional ways of life and the importance of the local hasidic rebbe, Yechiel-Meier (Halevi) Halsztok, as well as the introduction of such modernities as bubble gum, are clearly and effectively described here. This memoir is remarkable for the ability of its author to recall so many events in detail and for the way he is able to be fair to all those caught up in the tragic dilemmas of those years. It is a major contribution to our understanding of the fate of Jews in smaller Polish towns during the Second World War and the conditions which made it possible for some of them, like Rubin, to survive.

Contents:

Frontmatter

I Shall Not Submit

Contents

Preface

Foreword / Smith, Stephen

Introduction / Polonsky, Antony

Prologue: A Carefree Childhood

Chapter 1: War! War! Is Their Cry

Chapter 2: The Nightmare Begins

Chapter 3: The Large Ghetto

Chapter 4: In the Hen-House

Chapter 5: Gone to Pitchipoï

Chapter 6: Like a Ghetto Rat

Chapter 7: The Brickyard

Chapter 8: A Shallow Grave

Chapter 9: Deadly Encounter

Chapter 10: My Guardian Angel

Chapter 11: An "Angel" in Nazi Uniform

Chapter 12: Jewish Pilgrim at the Black Madonna

Chapter 13: The Warsaw Inferno

Chapter 14: Shelter at a Police Colony

Chapter 15: "Robinson Crusoe"

Chapter 16: Stefek: Leader of the Gang

Chapter 17: A Shaft of Light

Chapter 18: Lublin Orphanage

Chapter 19: Shattered Homecoming

Chapter 20: Passage to Tower Bridge

Chapter 21: Adieu Poland: Welcome to Woodberry Down

Epilogue

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019).

ISBN:

9781618116840

1618116843

9781618112743

1618112740

9781618112354

161811235X

OCLC:

1135585773