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The shoemaker's son : the life of a Holocaust resister / Laura Beth Bakst.
Van Pelt Library DS135.P6 B242 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bakst, Laura Beth, author.
- Series:
- Holocaust survivor true stories WWII
- Holocaust survivor true stories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish ghettos--Biography.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Ijwe.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Holocaust survivors--Biography.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Poland--History.
- Poland.
- Bakst, David, 1922-2020.
- Bakst, Paula Silberfarb.
- Jews--Belarus--Iue--Biography.
- Jews--Ukraine--Sernyky (Rivnensʹka oblastʹ)--Biography.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Belarus--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Ukraine--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Personal narratives.
- Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors--Biography.
- Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography.
- Iŭe (Belarus).
- Sernyky (Rivnensʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine).
- Genre:
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 234 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- The Netherlands : Amsterdam Publishers, [2021]
- Summary:
- "When the Soviet Union invaded Iwje, Poland in September 1939, David Bakszt's life was thrown into turmoil. His father's business was shuttered, his family was impoverished overnight, and his tight-knit community was disbanded. Though David did not know it at the time, a similar fate had befallen many Eastern European Jews, including the Silberfarb family in Serniki, Poland. Then, the Nazis arrived. From crowded ghettos and frigid forests to the battlefields on the Eastern Front, The Shoemaker's Son tells the true story of the Bakszts' and Silberfarbs' fights for survival, their struggles to rebuild in the aftermath, and the lives that they saved and lost in the process. Written by a third-generation survivor, this book provides a sober but loving account of her refugee family's extraordinary resistance efforts against the Nazis, the survivors' remarkable ability to embrace life amid so much death, and the indelible impact left on them and future generations."--Jacket flap..
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789493231665
- 9493231666
- 9789493231641
- 949323164X
- OCLC:
- 1280702199
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