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	I Shall Live *: Surviving the Holocaust 1939-1945* One of many remarkable stories in the author's life during World War II. With his strong determination to live, he survived the S.S. hunt for Jews, five concentration camps, and the Sachsenhausen death march.	Henry Orenstein 9780825305009 b/w photos & maps 140x215mm 272 pages Midpoint Trade Books (Beaufort Books) £9.50 pb
	I Was There This is a searing story of a remarkable young woman who survived the Holocaust against all odds, and after years of silence in the US her adoptive country, decided to let the world know what had happened to her, to her loved ones, and to her fellow Jews. The strength and originality of her narrative stems from both the perspective of the young woman who offers a frank insight into what it was like for her, separated from most of her family and friends to survive six years of Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe, and the author's keen recollection of small everyday details that sharply document the boundless brutality of the Nazis and their collaborators.	Frances Penney 9780884001270 155x235mm 152 pages Schreiber Publishing £12.50 hb
	Irene : Chronicle of a Survivor The bulk of this tender story of life for Jews in Nazi Germany is contained in the letters written in Berlin by the grandmother, Jenny Pelz, and sent to her family in Brookline, Massachusetts.	Irene Hofstein 9780884002000 b/w photos 160x235mm 177 pages Schreiber Publishing £16.50 hb
	Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted : Surviving in Nazi Germany & Communist East Germany Persecuted as a Jew, both under the Nazis and in post-war East Germany, Johanna Krause (19072001) courageously fought her way through life with searing humour and indomitable strength of character. "Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted" is her story. Born in Dresden into bitter poverty, Krause received little education and worked mostly in shops and factories. In 1933, when she came to the defence of a Jewish man being beaten by the brownshirts, Krause was jailed for "insulting the Führer". After a secret wedding in 1935, she was arrested again with her husband, Max Krause, for breaking the law that forbade marriage between a Jew and an "Aryan". In the years following, Johanna endured many atrocities -- a forced abortion while eight months pregnant and subsequent sterilisation, her incarceration in numerous prisons and concentration camps, including Ravensbrück, the notorious women’s camp near Berlin, and a death march. After the war, the Krauses took part enthusiastically in building the new socialist republic of East Germany - until 1958, when Johanna recognised a party official as a man who had tried to rape and kill her during the war. Thinking the communist party would punish the official, Joanna found out whose side the party was on and was subjected to anti-Semitic attacks. Both she and her husband were jailed and their business and belongings confiscated. After her release she lived as a persona non grata in East Germany, having been evicted from the communist party. It was only in the 1990s, after the reunification of Germany, that Johanna saw some justice. Originally published as "Zweimal Verfolgt", the book is the result of collaboration between Johanna Krause, Carolyn Gammon, and Christiane Hemker. Translated by Carolyn Gammon, "Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted" will be of interest to scholars of auto/biography, World War II history, and the Holocaust.	Carolyn Gammon & Christiane Hemker 9781554580064 b/w photos, illus & maps 155x230mm 166 pages Wilfrid Laurier University Press £13.99 pb
	Keep it Safe! : Jewish Life in a Hungarian Town To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the holocaust in Hungary renowned photographer Irén Ács collected photographs from her birth place of Szécsény and told her own story of a Jewish childhood in the Hungarian countryside to author Júlia Levendel. 'Keep it Safe!' is a moving document of a lost world and a fascinating example of the possibilities of found photographs when accompanied by an appropriate commentary. "...a moving document...her book is a memorial and a valuable historical record. It's used in schools in Hungary, and there's a place for it in our own classrooms and libraries." -- Times Educational Supplement	Irén Ács with Júlia Levendel 9781899460212 78 sepia photos 210x230mm 86 pages Boulevard Books £15.95 pb
	Last Walk in Naryshkin Park This memoir of Jewish family history is also a documentation of atrocities inflicted by the fascist militia during the German occupation of Eastern Europe. It is a personal account of the legacy of the Holocaust. Naryshkin Park is a place where lovers once walked... ... on 2 October 1941 it became the site of a mass grave. In Zhager, a small town on the Lithuanian-Latvian border, over 3000 Jewish men, women and children were massacred on 2 October 1941, by members of the Lithuanian militia. They lie in a mass grave in Naryshkin Park, the heart of the shetl. Last Walk in Naryshkin Park is the story of Rose ZwiÕs quest to discover the fate of her fatherÕs family who perished in the Holocaust, and that of her uncle Leib Yoffe- musician, lover, barber, soldier, revolutionary. Moving, passionate, thought-provoking. More than a family history, more thatn an account of a massacre, Last Walk in Naryshkin Park asks questions which resonate from 1940s Lithuania to Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda.	Rose Zwi 9781875559725 Illustrations: b&w photos 140x215mm 252 pages Spinifex Press £11.95 pb
	Life's Meaning in the Face of Suffering : Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors What do we do when we are suddenly subjected to traffic and senseless suffering -- suffering we did not bring upon ourselves, that we feel we do not deserve? This book is about the suffering of Jewish men, women and children who were singled out as targets of senseless hatred and ruthless persecution by the Nazi’s during the Second World War. The struggle of Holocaust survivors to come to terms with what happened to them in the Nazi concentration and death camps gives us a poignant picture of the human struggle to understand what life is all about in the face of its tragedies and hardships, and of the evil of man’s inhumanity to man.	Teria Shantall 9789654931427 180x260mm 321 pages Hebrew University Magnes Press £37.50 hb
	Long Labour : A Dutch Mother's Holocaust Memoir In this unusual Holocaust memoir, Rhodea Shandler gives a woman's view of life under the Nazis in Holland. She begins by describing her early life in a closely knit Jewish family in northern Holland. There was anti-Semitism, she explains, but it was of a low level, and the Jews with their strong ties to community managed to live relatively normal lives. Then everything began to change with Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Through it all, she tells of life ongoing and how she became a nursing student in Amsterdam. It was while she was working in an Amsterdam hospital on 9 May 1940, that an explosion was heard, and she looked up to watch German paratroopers landing to take control of the city. Over the next few years she describes how the community attempts to cope even as Jews are being deported before their very eyes. Finally in early 1943, she and her new husband decide that they must go into hiding in the countryside. With the help of the Underground, they find a "safe" farm, but their situation changes when Shandler discovers that she is pregnant. Some of the most moving parts of the story describe her preparations for the child's birth, even as their "friendly" family turns against them, fearful of the new dangers a baby will bring. Then on a bitterly cold day in December 1943 the baby is born, and Shandler is left with the difficult task of caring for the child in the midst of continuing Gestapo raids. Shandler's memoir ends with the family's decision after the war to emigrate to Canada, and for Shandler to write of her struggle to give birth to the new.	Rhodea Shandler 9781553800453 20 b/w photos 155x230mm Ronsdale Press £11.99 pb
	The Lost Childhood : The Complete Memoir This compelling memoir takes readers through the eyes of a child surviving World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a nine-year-old, the author witnessed his father being herded into a truck -- never to be seen again. He, his mother, and sister fled to Warsaw to live in disguise as Catholics under the noses of the Nazi SS, constantly fearful of discovery and persecution. A sobering reminder of the personal toll of the Holocaust on Jews during World War II, this book is a harrowing portrait of one child's loss of innocence. This edition contains previously unpublished content from the original text.	Yehuda Nir 9780971059863 155x230mm 272 pages Schaffner Press, Inc. £14.99 pb
	Magda's Daughter *: A Hidden Child's Journey Home* To survive the long shadow of the Third Reich, many Jewish children were placed in hiding, forced to keep their true identities – names, religion, places of birth, even gender – absolutely secret. Although these 'hidden children' avoided capture and murder, many of their family members did not, and their experiences marked them for life. Evi Blaikie's passionate memoir depicts a life lived in the shadow of exile.	Evi Blaikie 9781558614437 155x230mm 277 paperback Feminist Press £11.50 pb
	Memories, Dreams, Nightmares : Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor The compelling memoir tells the story of Holocaust survivor Jack Weiss. This is the story of his abused childhood, how a deported eleven-year old boy escaped from certain death to join his father in the middle of a war. He was deported again to the infamous Auschwitz/Bierkenau concentration camp where he was selected for forced labour. Somehow, he miraculously survived these horrors, and at the age of 17, he was brought by the Canadian Jewish Congress to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where was finally able to carve out a life for himself.	Jack Weiss 9781552381267 130x190mm 254 pages University of Calgary Press £13.99 pb
	Missing Pieces : My Life as a Child Survivor of the Holocaust Until the age of seven, Olga Barsony lived an idyllic life in Szarvas, a small town in Hungary, surrounded by her doting, observant Jewish family. In spring 1944, Olga and most of her family were interned in the Auspitz labour camp shortly after the Nazi occupation of Hungary. Eventually reunited after the war, the family moved back to Szarvas, only to face harsh repression at the hands of the Communists a few short years later. In 1957, the Barsonys immigrated to Winnipeg, where Olga met and married her husband Orland Verrall, the cantor at the local synagogue. Olga and Orland's love for each other, the birth of their two daughters, and the promise of a peaceful, contented life together helped to build the foundation of a new start in Canada -- a seemingly happy ending to an otherwise traumatic number of years. Sadly for Olga Verral, she would have to endure many more tribulations as she undertook the painful process of re-living the horror of the Holocaust as a child, while at the same time wrestling with the ghosts that had been haunting her life ever since. Anger, sadness, and a deep sense of emptiness would be a recurring theme and source of frustration as Olga undertook rebuilding her life in the aftermath of such intensely excruciating events. After the death of her husband and subsequent emotional breakdown, doctors encouraged her to write her memoirs as a form of therapy. In this way Olga Verral takes her first steps on the long journey towards recovery and tries finally to write a genuinely triumphant ending to her life story. "Missing Pieces" makes a significant contribution to the growing genre of writing by child survivors of the Holocaust, and is the first Holocaust memoir to expose the little-known Auspitz labour camp.	Olga Verrall 9781552382202 b/w photos 125x190mm 244 pages University of Calgary Press £13.99 pb
	My Years in Theresienstadt : How One Woman Survived the Holocaust Gerty Spies was born in 1897 at Trier into a Jewish family whose ancestors had lived in Germany for centuries. Separated from her family by the Nazis, she was sent to the Czech camp known as Theresienstadt. It was a peculiar place: publicised as a retirement city, a Nazi propaganda showplace where Jews could sit out the war. But it was actually a way station for those destined for the Auschwitz death camp. Isolated from the outside world, surrounded by death, Spies retreated to her inner self to concentrate on human, cultural, and other values. Her powerful talent for writing, discovered at the camp; enabled her to transcend and triumph over mental and physical degradations; to keep her own integrity; to not let evil destroy her loving nature; and, finally, to not lose faith in humanity. By the end of the war, 33,000 people died in Theresienstadt from disease and malnutrition. Spies' work exhibits a tension between the expression of camp reality and an imagination of an idealised past. Sensitive and humorous, but never bitter, her stories of the struggle for survival are expressions of her own individual moral poise.	Gerty Spies 9781573921411 b/w photos 140x215mm 214 pages Prometheus Books £24.99 hb
	Never Far Away *: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman* Brings to print the mysterious story of the Gunpowder Plot, where women working as slave labourers in the Union Munitions factory plotted to destroy Auschwitz crematoriums.	Anna Heilman 9781552380406 155x230mm 160 pages University of Calgary Press £13.99 pb
	No One Awaiting Me : Two Brothers Defy Death During the Holocaust in Romania A riveting account of two orphaned brothers whose courage enabled them to survive the rarely told horrors of the Holocaust in Romania. As Jews expelled from Bukovina and Bessarabia to Transnistria, young Joil and his brother Avrum witnessed the cruel deaths of their parents and many others. This is a deeply personal account told through the memories of a child. Readers will never forget the powerful and loving bond between these two brothers. This memoir becomes an inspiring and thoughtful experience for any reader willing to consider both the constructive and the destructive capacities of humankind. This is a story both poignant and triumphant as Joil recounts how he survived the Holocaust with an unmistakable optimism that ultimately brought him to the prairies of Canada.	Joil Alpern 9781552380611 (pb) 9781552380710 (hb) 17 b/w photos & 2 maps 155x230mm 262 pages University of Calgary Press £13.99 pb £19.50 hb
	Notes From the Warsaw Ghetto : The Unflinching, Classic First-Hand Account This is the moving account of the horror of the Warsaw Ghetto - written by the recognised archivist and historian of the area while he lived through it. Through anecdotes, stories, and notations - some as brief as was slapped today in Zlota Street - there emerges the agonising, eyewitness accounts of human beings caught in the furore of senseless, unrelenting brutality. In the Journal, there is the whole of life in the Ghetto, from the erection of the Wall, in November 1940, for hygienic reasons, through the brief period of deceptive calm to the eventual mass murders. It is a portrait of man tested by crisis, stained at times by the meanness of avarice and self-preservation, illumined more often by moments of nobility.	Emmanual Ringelblum 9781596873315 155x230mm 368 pages Brick Tower Press £9.99 pb
	Oskar Schindler and His List : The Man, the Book, the Film, the Holocaust and Its Survivors Thomas Fensch pieces together articles and interviews to show how Keneally came to write Schindler's List; how Steven Spielberg brought this extraordinary story to life on film; and how uncovering Schindler's valiant rescue of so many Jewish lives has dramatically altered Holocaust awareness in our time. Oskar Schindler and His List is a collection of essays and reviews compiled by Thomas Fensch. It provides an insight into the life of the of the enigmatic anti-hero after the war up untill his death in 1973. The book describes;the making of the Oscar winning film , the reasons Spielberg had for making it and how it changed his life and his acceptance of his faith." .... Amazon customer review	Thomas Fensch (ed) 9780839764724 155x235mm 270 pages Paul S Eriksson £21.50 hb
	The Parnas Without sermonising or assigning an easy explanation to a mysterious drama, the author gives an overview of Italian-Jewish history, a description of war-torn Italy, and a dramatic account of the process of self-understanding in the face of death itself.	Silvano Arieti 9780966491302 140x215mm 160 pages Paul Dry Books £10.99 pb