Gazing at the stars : memories of a child survivor / Eva Slonim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slonim, Eva, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slonim, Eva, 1931-.

Slonim, Eva.

Jewish children--Slovakia--Biography.

Jewish children.

Jewish children in the Holocaust--Slovakia--Biography.

Jewish children in the Holocaust.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Collingwood, Victoria, Australia : Black Incorporated, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In March 1939, seven-year-old Eva Weiss's innocence was shattered by Germany's invasion of her homeland, Slovakia. Over the next five years, as the Nazi persecution of Europe's Jews gathered momentum, Eva's parents were forced to send their children into hiding, but she and her sister Marta could not avoid capture.In this remarkable memoir, Eva recounts her experiences at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. There, she witnessed countless horrors and was herself subjected to torture, extreme deprivation, and medical experimentation at the hands of the notorious Dr Josef Mengele. When the

Contents:

Front cover; Copyright; GAZING AT THE STARS; Contents; Dedication; Foreword; Childhood; Weiss & Kerpel; A Premonition; Invasion; Why Didn't We Leave?; Loss; Duty; Can You Hear Us?; The Ghetto; Who Will Live and Who Will Die?; An Only Child; 'I Will Be Spared'; Our Last Goodbye; Alone; Interrogation; Gombárik; Torture; Caught; Orphaned, All of Us; Our First Day; The Familienlager; A27201; Toddlers' Barracks; Mengele; Hospital; The Sound of Defeat; No One Was Waiting for Us; 'We Are on Our Own'; Days of Walking; Anywhere but Here; Convalescence; They Are Alive; Arriving Home; Everyone Returning

KurtiBoarding School; The Furthest Place from Here; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Glossary

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 04, 2015).

ISBN:

9781922231475

1922231479