For Decades I Was Silent : A Holocaust Survivor's Journey Back to Faith / Baruch G. Goldstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldstein, Baruch G., 1923-

Series:

Judaic studies series (Unnumbered)

Judaic studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography.

Holocaust survivors.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Mława--Biography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Jews--Poland--Mława--Biography.

Jews.

Mława (Poland)--Biography.

Mława (Poland).

Goldstein, Baruch G., 1923-.

Goldstein, Baruch G.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1939, Baruch Goldstein was a religiously observant adolescent resident of the Jewish community in Mlawa, a town that was then in East Prussia. After war broke out, the Jewish community there was relatively sheltered, as that region was incorporated into the German Reich rather than into the General Government (the German run-fragment of pre-war Poland, where conditions were harsh for everyone). However in 1942, Goldstein was sent to Auschwitz, where he stayed two-and-a-half years. His family was scattered all to their deaths, but he survived the war--barely. For Decades I Was Si

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Extended Family Members Who Perished in the Holocaust, 1939-1945; Introduction; 1. Origins; 2. The Rise of the Nazi Party and the Invasion of Poland; 3. Mlawa under German Occupation; 4. The First Expulsion of Jews from Mlawa and the Creation of a Ghetto; 5. Refugees in Lubartów; 6. On the Way Back Home to Mlawa; 7. A Prisoner in the Labor Camps; 8. Life in the Mlawa Ghetto; 9. Liquidation of the Mlawa Ghetto; 10. To the Auschwitz Concentration Camp; 11. The Long Road to Liberation; 12. From Slavery to Freedom; 13. Decision Making

14. First Passover in America15. Husband, Father, Teacher; 16. I Find My Calling; 17. My Return to Mlawa; 18. To Jerusalem; 19. Faith after the Holocaust; Epilogue: Gratitude and Hope; Notes; Glossary

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-186).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8662-9

OCLC:

650017517