Flares of memory
| Titel: | Flares of memory : stories of childhood during the Holocaust / ed. by Anita Brostoff ... |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
| Umfang: | XXXIX, 344 Seiten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 0195138716 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Acknowledgments
- p. vi
- Foreword
- p. xiii
- Timeline of the Holocaust
- p. xv
- Map of Concentration Camps in Europe
- p. xxviii
- Preface
- p. xxix
- Introduction
- p. xxxiii
- I
- Snapshots: Jewish Life Before the Holocaust
- p. 1
- Snapshots
- p. 2
- War Arrives in Lithuania
- p. 3
- A German Family
- p. 7
- Betrayal
- p. 11
- Parting
- p. 13
- II
- The Destruction of a Society
- p. 15
- Herr B
- p. 17
- A Kristallnacht Journey
- p. 18
- An Action Against the Jews
- p. 20
- Leaving Germany, Leaving Home
- p. 24
- Escape to England
- p. 26
- The Best-Laid Plans
- p. 28
- A Life-Defining Impression
- p. 30
- The Harbinger of What?
- p. 32
- The Beginning and the End
- p. 33
- A Family Gone, One by One
- p. 34
- The Abandonment of Mielec
- p. 36
- A Shtetl's Life is Ended
- p. 37
- What Ever Happened to the Jews of Skudvil?
- p. 40
- III
- Ruthlessness as a System
- p. 43
- In the Dark
- p. 45
- Theresienstadt
- p. 47
- Dachau
- p. 50
- Auschwitz, 1944
- p. 55
- The Tenth Woman on Block Ten
- p. 56
- The Means to Survive
- p. 58
- The Gypsies
- p. 60
- Nazi Murderers
- p. 61
- How Many Made It?
- p. 63
- The Law in Lithuania
- p. 64
- Horrors of War
- p. 70
- IV
- The Lottery of Death and Life
- p. 81
- German Roulette
- p. 83
- My Sister Rieke
- p. 84
- A Definition of Survival
- p. 86
- An Unforgettable Passover Seder
- p. 89
- Trying to Go Home
- p. 90
- Bar Mitzvah Boy
- p. 93
- The Skull with the Golden Braid
- p. 95
- The Concentration Camp Lottery
- p. 96
- The Girl with Wooden Shoes
- p. 101
- The Wagon
- p. 102
- The Child
- p. 103
- V
- Disguise as a Way of Hiding
- p. 105
- In Constant Terror
- p. 107
- Posing as a Christian
- p. 114
- I Choose Life
- p. 116
- Lost Families
- p. 119
- Beyond Memory
- p. 121
- A Hidden Child in Greece
- p. 123
- VI
- The Sustaining Power of Family Love
- p. 143
- The Promise
- p. 144
- A Mother's Courage
- p. 147
- Miracles
- p. 151
- A Dream of Milk
- p. 155
- In Praise of Manual Labor
- p. 156
- A Son in Deed
- p. 158
- The Psychologist
- p. 162
- VII
- The Virtuous and the Vicious
- p. 163
- A Narrow Escaper
- p. 165
- The Kindness of Strangers
- p. 168
- A Saintly Person
- p. 170
- The Convent in Marseilles
- p. 173
- Among the Righteous
- p. 176
- The Killing Hunger
- p. 179
- Captain Zimmer
- p. 180
- The Volunteer Group
- p. 181
- Mazel
- p. 182
- The Farmer Kowarski
- p. 185
- A Surprise Package
- p. 187
- VIII
- Disguise as a Way of Hiding
- p. 189
- Lithuanian Friends
- p. 191
- Unsung Heroes
- p. 199
- Friend or Enemy?
- p. 202
- Resist in Everything!
- p. 208
- IX
- Emergence into Light
- p. 225
- The Golden Chain of Judaism
- p. 227
- Flight to Freedom
- p. 236
- The Last Hiding Place
- p. 243
- One Day War, the Next Day Not
- p. 245
- The Long Road After Liberation
- p. 247
- On the Way to Health
- p. 249
- An Ending and a Beginning
- p. 252
- The Tiny Flame
- p. 254
- X
- The Aftermath: Remembering
- p. 257
- The Aftermath
- p. 258
- The Barber
- p. 260
- Kaleidoscope Salonika, Greece, 1945
- p. 261
- The Sewing Basket
- p. 263
- Children from the Camps Going to England
- p. 265
- The Chief of the Gestapo
- p. 268
- Herr Schluemper
- p. 270
- The Miracle
- p. 272
- To Bear Witness About the Holocaust
- p. 274
- It Shall Not Be Forgotten nor Forgiven!
- p. 276
- Addendum Seen with My Own Eyes: Stories by American Liberators
- p. 279
- The Photograph
- p. 281
- Germany, 1945: View from a Tank
- p. 283
- Gusen a Nurse's Tale
- p. 286
- A Letter from Dachau
- p. 288
- I Saw Buchenwald
- p. 291
- Re-Entry
- p. 296
- Biographies of Survivor-Authors
- p. 298
- Biographies of Survivor-Authors
- p. 298
- Photographs of Liberator-Authors
- p. 336
- Author Index
- p. 342
- Story Index
- p. 343
