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Living for my family / Eva Neumann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neumann, Eva, author.
- Series:
- My Voice: the Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors Series
- My Voice: The Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neumann, Eva--Biography.
- Neumann, Eva.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Personal narratives.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp).
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)--Personal narratives.
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp).
- Holocaust survivors--Interviews.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust survivors--Biography.
- Holocaust survivors--Great Britain--History.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Death marches--Personal narratives.
- Death marches.
- Jewish refugees--Great Britain--Biography.
- Jewish refugees.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([230] pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- My voice : Eva Neumann
- Eva Neumann
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2025.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Biography/History:
- The Fed is Manchester's leading social care charity serving the Jewish community. In June of 2021, The Fed were awarded the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service for the My Voice Project, the highest possible accolade for a voluntary sector group.
- Summary:
- Eva's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Eva appears in some of the photographs that are the only visual evidence of the mass murder at Auschwitz. After the war, she moved to Manchester and has 25 grandchildren.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- My Voice Project
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1 - My family history
- 2 - Our home in Szolyva
- 3 - It was a Jewish town
- 4 - The hot springs
- 5 - My grandmother Pearl
- 6 - Early school life
- 7 - My learned father
- 8 - The sanctity of Shabbos and Yomim Tovim
- 9 - Growth of antisemitism and anti-Jewish laws
- 10 - My Bas Mitzvah
- 11 - Horror stories
- 12 - An underlying fear
- 13 - Shmuel's Bar Mitzvah
- 14 - The last Seder
- 15 - Deportation from Szolyva
- 16 - Degradation in Munkács
- 17 - Death train to Auschwitz
- 18 - The selection
- 19 - My father's words
- 20 - The barracks in Birkenau
- 21 - Finding diamonds in Kanada
- 22 - Encounter with my grandmother
- 23 - Shema Yisroel
- 24 - What helped me survive?
- 25 -Uprising in the crematorium
- 26 - Death March
- 27 - Digging for our lives at Neustadt-Glewe
- 28 - Saved from a pile of bodies
- 29 - Hitchhiking to Prague with my cousins
- 30 - An emotional reunion in Budapest
- 31 - Adapting to normal life was hard
- 32 - A difficult journey to Vienna
- 33 - Finding my cousin Pinchas
- 34 - Meeting my husband
- 35 - Married life and children
- 36 - Thoughts
- 37 - Returning to Auschwitz
- 38 - Family is everything
- Glossary
- My Voice volunteers
- About The Fed.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher-supplied metadata; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-5261-9235-7
- 1-5261-9233-0
- OCLC:
- 1522767645
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