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Filling in the pieces : a survival story of the Holocaust / Izaak Sturm.
Van Pelt Library DS134.72.S78 A3 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sturm, Izaak, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sturm, Izaak.
- Jews--Poland--Dębica (Województwo Podkarpackie)--Biography.
- Jews.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Dębica (Województwo Podkarpackie)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Dębica (Województwo Podkarpackie, Poland)--Biography.
- Dębica (Województwo Podkarpackie, Poland).
- Holocaust survivors--Biography.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Poland--Dębica (Województwo Podkarpackie).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 264 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jerusalem ; Edison, NJ : Gefen Publishing House, [2019/5779]
- Summary:
- "Izaak Sturm was born into an upper middle class family in Poland. As a boy, he faced a rising tide of anti-Semitism from the local Polish population that reached its peak during the Nazi occupation. Imprisoned in a ghetto, a work camp, and various concentration camps, Izaak Sturm endured horrific cruelty and witnessed it all around him -- yet chose life. Thanks to his determination and quick thinking, together with unexpected kindnesses, he survived in body and spirit. The war did not destroy him. Preserving the seed of religious life that had been planted by his famiy and community, Izaak Sturm rebuilt his entire world"--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Home p. 3
- Chapter 2 School p. 21
- Chapter 3 Rising Tensions p. 33
- Chapter 4 Should We Stay or Go? p. 37
- Chapter 5 The Ghetto and the Aussiedlungen p. 49
- Chapter 6 The Escapes p. 61
- Chapter 7 My Final Days in Debica p. 71
- Chapter 8 Plaszów, Hell on Earth p. 81
- Chapter 9 Auschwitz p. 89
- Chapter 10 The Death March, Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen p. 101
- Chapter 11 Liberation p. 109
- Chapter 12 A New Life in Sweden p. 123
- Chapter 13 America p. 141
- Chapter 14 Revisiting the Past p. 149
- Chapter 15 Legacy p. 155.
- ISBN:
- 9789652299666
- 9652299669
- OCLC:
- 1044773453
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