From The Holocaust To A New Dawn

Author : Helen Sendyk
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815607359
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Dawn written by Helen Sendyk and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This emotionally riveting book traces the travails of three young Polish Jewish women attempting to resurrect their lives in the bitter aftermath of World War II. After years in a concentration camp, they must first fend off the lusty Russian soldiers who free them. Then comes the arduous trek home. Other people live in their houses now, and the village is hostile. Where will they go? How will they survive? Is anyone they knew and loved still alive? Traveling far, often passing as non-Jews, they learn to cope and endure. Finally, their search for freedom bears fruit in the promise of a Jewish homeland. But pioneering Israel means new hardships: housing shortages, scant medicine, food rationing, political conflict. And enemies everywhere, from harsh British rulers to warrior Arab neighbors. New Dawn is a book of many miracles. As history, it thrillingly recounts how Jews from vastly different cultures joined forces to fight for Israel. As Holocaust literature, it is significant. A half-century after the fact, time is running out for survivors, and the need for testimony is pressing. This book makes a major contribution to that growing genre.

Author : Daṿid Shaḥar
Publisher : Gefen Publishing House Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9652295469
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Holocaust to a New Dawn written by Daṿid Shaḥar and published by Gefen Publishing House Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memories of David Shachar are a journey through the tunnel of time: from wanderings in Poland to the life of a refugee in World War II, and on to a soldier's life fighting the Nazis. After the war, while studying radio electronics in Paris, David cut his studies short and came to Israel to fight in the War of Independence. A few years later, David and his wife, Chaya, answered Ben-Gurion's call to settle the country "from the city to the frontier," and they moved to the development town of Kiryat Shmona. He worked tirelessly to advance the developing city, using his qualifications and abilities to build up technology in the border area. Years later, David Shachar served as a senior representative of the Israel Aircraft Industries with the Ministry of Defense and did much to develop and advance Israel's defense industry. David never lost sight of his memories of World War II and devoted himself to memorializing the bravery of the 30,000 Jewish soldiers who fell in the Polish army. On his initiative, the outstanding monument in their memory was established at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. In the words of Ephraim Kaye of Yad Vashem, David's story of rebirth "is one of unprecedented creativity, courage and self-sacrifice that is the essence of Israel today." This inspiring autobiography is a must-read. "Through tragedy and war and a desire for peace, the life story of David Shachar serves as a model for our times.

Author : Mitchell Geoffrey Bard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1599216604
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 48 Hours of Kristallnacht written by Mitchell Geoffrey Bard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to thoroughly chronicle this pivotal event by presenting a wide array of eyewitness testimony, much of it previously unpublished, and to set the event firmly in historical context.

Author : Eli Rubenstein
Publisher : Second Story Press
ISBN 13 : 1772600083
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witness written by Eli Rubenstein and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 25 years, the March of the Living has organized visits for adults and students from all over the world to Poland, where millions of Jews were enslaved and murdered by Nazi Germany during WWII. The organization's goal is not only to remember and bear witness to the terrible events of the past, but also to look forward. They want to inspire participants to build a world free of oppression and intolerance, a world of freedom, democracy and justice for all members of the human family. Rooted in a touring exhibit launched at the United Nations, this book is a compilation of photographs and text that give firsthand accounts from the survivors who have participated in March of the Living programs, together with reactions and responses from the people, young students in particular, of many faiths and cultures worldwide who have traveled with the group over the years.

Author : Albert H. Friedlander
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riders Towards the Dawn written by Albert H. Friedlander and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Jewish people, argues Rabbi Friedlander, have to move out of the shadow of the Holocaust. But what the world has not understood is that the Jewish emphasis upon the Holocaust is not a plea for sympathy; rather, as George Steiner has said, "We are our own remembrancers." What Jews want the world to remember is the evil that caused those deaths and which is still endemic in the world." "Now there is a new generation, living in the time after the Holocaust, entering the twenty-first century. Jews must move beyond the trauma of a suppressed past which endures within the dark corners of the psyche. But, argues Dr. Friedlander, we must listen to the messengers who come out of the darkness and are their own message even when they are silent. In this book he enters into a dialogue with the great Jewish thinkers and writers of our time - with Primo Levi, Bruno Bettelheim, Elie Wiesel - and tries in his exploration to move toward a concept of humanity which includes evil as a component of our makeup, which sees the glory of human existence in winning partial victories against darkness, and which celebrates the hope that even a journey moving into darkness has dimensions of hope within itself." "Riders Towards the Dawn is a highly original contribution toward a new understanding of Judaism and Jewish thought as we approach a new century. It will be read by Jews and non-Jews alike, and will create controversy and widespread debate."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780809037728
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dawn written by Elie Wiesel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-03-21 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with the conflicts and thoughts of a young Jewish concentration-camp veteran as he prepares to assassinate a British hostage in occupied Palestine.

Author : Jason Lantzer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111327612
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dwight Eisenhower and the Holocaust written by Jason Lantzer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dwight Eisenhower’s encounter with the Holocaust altered how he understood the Second World War and shaped how he led the United States and the Western Alliance during the Cold War. This book is the first to blend scholarship on Eisenhower, World War II, and the Holocaust together, constructing a narrative that offers new insights into all three, all while uncovering the story of how he became among the first to vow that such atrocities would never again be allowed to happen. From the moment he stepped foot in the concentration camp Ohrdruf in April 1945, defeating Nazi Germany took on a moral hue for Eisenhower that had largely been absent before. It spurred the belief that totalitarianism in all its forms needed to be confronted. This conviction shaped his presidency and solidified American engagement in the postwar world. Putting these pieces of the story together alters how we view and understand the second half of the twentieth century.

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dawn written by Elie Wiesel and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780903895071
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night ; Dawn ; The Accident written by Elie Wiesel and published by Robson Books Limited. This book was released on 1974-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This book offers his account of that atrocity: the horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive.

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 1466821175
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Day written by Elie Wiesel and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2006-03-21 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man." --The New York Times Book Review The publication of Day restores Elie Wiesel's original title to the novel initially published in English as The Accident and clearly establishes it as the powerful conclusion to the author's classic trilogy of Holocaust literature, which includes his memoir Night and novel Dawn. "In Night it is the ‘I' who speaks," writes Wiesel. "In the other two, it is the ‘I' who listens and questions." In its opening paragraphs, a successful journalist and Holocaust survivor steps off a New York City curb and into the path of an oncoming taxi. Consequently, most of Wiesel's masterful portrayal of one man's exploration of the historical tragedy that befell him, his family, and his people transpires in the thoughts, daydreams, and memories of the novel's narrator. Torn between choosing life or death, Day again and again returns to the guiding questions that inform Wiesel's trilogy: the meaning and worth of surviving the annihilation of a race, the effects of the Holocaust upon the modern character of the Jewish people, and the loss of one's religious faith in the face of mass murder and human extermination.