Ike Alterman : rest their souls / Ike Alterman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alterman, Ike, author.

Series:

My voice: the remarkable life stories of Holocaust survivors.

My voice: the remarkable life stories of Holocaust survivors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust survivors--Biography.

Holocaust survivors.

Jewish refugees--England--Biography.

Jewish refugees.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Interviews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 167 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Ike Alterman was born in 1928 in Ożarów in Poland. In telling his story, he recounts his happy Orthodox Jewish upbringing, the tragic loss of his immediate family in Treblinka and Auschwitz, his ordeal through concentration camps including Auschwitz-Birkenau, surviving multiple death marches, and his liberation in Theresienstadt in 1945. Ike is one of 'The Boys', brought to Windermere in England, as part of a British governmental scheme granting asylum to Holocaust child survivors. Ike describes his rehabilitation, and new life in Manchester, where he started a family and established a jewellery business. Later in life, Ike pursued closure by revisiting his hometown in Poland and undertaking a difficult trip to Treblinka. He reflects on his life after immeasurable loss, and what it means to endure and bear witness. Ike's book is part of the My Voice book collection, a series of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. The oral history, which is recorded and transcribed, captures their entire lives from before, during and after the war years. The books are written in the words of the survivor so that future generations can always hear their voice. The My Voice book collection is a valuable resource for Holocaust awareness and education.

Contents:

Front matter

My Voice Project

Dedication

Contents

1 - My early memories

2 - My father's family in Ostrowiec

3 - My father's business

4 - Family rituals in Ożarów

5 - The taste of those times

6 - My early education and antisemitism

7 - Occupation and the ghetto

8 - So much fear, so much pressure

9 - The selection

10 - I was alone

11 - Blyzin concentration camp

12 - Auschwitz-Birkenau

13 - It was fear all the time

14 - Oh, the atrocities

15 - Death march and missed liberations

16 - Another missed liberation

17 - We're free! We're free!

18 - England bound

19 - Freedom in Windermere

20 - A Manchester group

21 - Getting back to normality

22 - My first job

23 - I've got family!

24 - Sawdust to the clowns

25 - Myra, a local girl from Hightown

26 - Marriage Generated by AI.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jul 2026).

Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.

ISBN:

9781526186539

1526186535

OCLC:

1458756544