My voice : Ike Alterman / Ike Alterman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alterman, Ike, author.

Series:

My Voice: the Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust survivors.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Ike Alterman'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. Ike was born in Poland in 1928, survived forced labour camps including Auschwitz-Birkenau, and went on to live in Manchester and build a career in the jewellery business.

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.

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ISBN:

9781526186539

1526186535

OCLC:

1458756544