Partisan's Memoir - Woman of the Holocaust Faye Schulman was a happy teenager learning to become a photographer when the Nazis invaded her small town on the Russian-Polish border. She had a loving family, good friends and neighbours, most of whom where soon lost in the horrors of the Holocaust. But Faye survived, and the photographs she took testify to her experiences and the persecution she witnessed. Decorated for heroism by several governments, Schulman, now in her eighties, tells an extraordinary story not just of survival but of struggle and resistance against oppression. Faye Schulman 9780929005768 155x230mm 232 pages Second Story Press £10.99 pb Prison on Wheels : From Ravensbrück to Burgau "Prison on Wheels" is a remarkable diary kept by a young Hungarian woman, Eva Dános, during sixteen horror-filled days and nights of deportation by the Nazis in 1945. It is an eyewitness report of a 700-kilometre rail journey from Ravensbrück, north of Berlin, to Burgau, near Munich, one of the countless such operations that took place within Nazi Germany’s vast network of labour and concentration camps. What makes this account of particular interest is the fact that the author had been a member of a small, underground group in Budapest led by Gitta Mallasz, and her fellow-prisoners included some of these same comrades. Their humanity helped to sustain them. Eva Langley-Dános 9783856305857 140x215mm 124 pages Daimon Verlag £11.50 pb Rescuers : Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust A welcome addition to Holocaust literature, this work presents a series of 49 personal reminiscences of non-Jewish citizens in various European nations who risked their lives to hide resident Jews from the Nazi horror. Most of those interviewed felt their actions were done out of friendship and for people caught in a web of hatred and anti-Semitism. They did not feel that they were acting heroically but that they were doing what was right. Portraits by Block of each of the rescuers accompany the text. These 49 are representative of the 9,295 rescuers honoured at the Yad Vashem in Israel. This is recommended reading for general readers as well as for college and university libraries.   Gay Block & Malka Drucker 9780841913233 colour & b/w photos 230x280mm 256 pages Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc £20.95 pb Resistance & Survival : The Jewish Community in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1941-1944 First published in Lithuania in 1999, this book received very wide critical acclaim and is now considered one of the seminal works on Lithuanian Jewry during the Holocaust period. Part One -- Persecution; Part Two -- Return to the Dark Ages; Part Three -- Resistance in the Ghetto; Part Four -- Our Partisan Detachment; Part Five -- Destinies; Index.   Sara Ginaite-Rubinson 9780889628168 b/w photos 155x230mm 252 pages Mosaic Press (co-published with the Holocaust Centre of Toronto, UJA Federation) £12.99 pb The Roommate of Ann Frank Van Der Zee re-creates the life story of Fritz Pfeffer, a German born Jewish dentist, who under the name of 'Dussel' - which means 'day-dreamer' or even 'dullard' - prominently appears in the diary of Anne Frank. In Het Achterhuis, Anne Frank describes this man, who was her roommate in hiding for almost two years, as a narrow minded, irritating and gloomy figure. This material, including Pfeffer's last letter to Kaletta, his lover, dated 15 November 1942, came into the hands of the well-known Dutch historian Nanda van der Zee. With the help of Pfeffer's son, who gave her a wealth of unpublished photographs, as well as friends and acquaintances of Kaletta and Pfeffer from Germany, Holland, Belgium and South Africa and the Pfeffer archives of the Anne Frank Foundation, she re-created the story of his life. In this book, which was published in the Netherlands in 1990, it is to the merit of Nanda van der Zee that she corrects the image that Anne Frank gave of Pfeffer and in essence rehabilitates him. He emerges as an affectionate man and a caring, warm lover. This new image proves to be a correction to the 'Diary' and may alter some of the hagiography surrounding Anne Frank. The testimony this book provides will penetrate deeper than a more empirical, historical account. It is a valuable supplement to the 'Diary'. The most significant value however lies in the author's underlying message: that war has a total, senseless and destructive effect on everybody. Nanda van der Zee 9789059110960 b/w photos 140x215mm 94 pages Aspekt Uitgeverij BV £10.95 pb Rumkowski & the Orphans of Lodz Chaim Rumkowski, the Nazi-appointed head of the Jewish Council in the Lodz Ghetto, had absolute authority over selections and deportations. He also used his power to molest children in the Lodz orphanage and outside. This quiet, devastating memoir by a Holocaust survivor documents her own abuse by Rumkowski and the accounts she heard from many others who suffered at his hands. Lucille Eichengreen 9781562791155 b/w photos 140x215mm 125 pages Mercury House £14.99 pb Running Through Fire : How I Survived the Holocaust "Du solst starben zwischem goyem!" A fellow Jew within the Warsaw Ghetto, offended by Zosia Goldberg's Polish of no Yiddish accent, spat at her in Yiddish: "May you die amongst the goyem!" Zosia took this 'curse' instead as a message from God. Her dramatic tale begins with her escaping the Warsaw Ghetto through the sewer, whereafter she survived the Holocaust posing as a Gentile. Zosia did not die amongst the goyem, and yet along her dangerous journey she should have died on numerous occasions. She was a 'débrouillarde', someone who could run through fire without getting burned. Hers is a story of resistance at every turn, of continual attempts at sabotage, of perpetually escaping and defeating the enemy. Her account is filled with unique energy and a wonder at the strangeness of human behaviour. For not only did she suffer bitter betrayals by fellow Jews, she also encountered the unexpected sympathies of Nazis, and was at many times aided by her very tormentors. This is not just a story of the Holocaust, but of a woman struggling to make sense of human folly and depravity. Zosia Goldberg, as told to Hilton Obenzinger; Introduction by Paul Auster 9781562791285 b/w photos 140x215mm 189 pages Mercury House £13.99 pb Saving the Jews : Amazing Stories of Men & Women Who Defied the 'Final Solution' The author has collected the most amazing stories of people who secretly saved Jewish lives from 1933 to 1945 and arranged them chronologically and geographically to show us that there will always be a few righteous souls who have made a greater difference in favour of human goodness.   Mordecai Paldiel 9781887563550 b/w photos 155x230mm 256 pages Schreiber Publishing £21.50 hb Scared & the Doomed : The Jewish Establishment vs the Six Million This is not only an important work on a painful and hidden chapter of Jewish history, it is also surprisingly prophetic. During World War 2, M J Nurenberger had a ‘front row seat’ to what he called the ‘Jewish Civil War’. This ‘war’ was a fierce struggle between the ‘pseudo-Zionist establishment’ in North America and the ‘Irgun’ underground in what was then ‘Eretz Israel’ and their delegations in Washington and New York. This ‘Jewish Civil War’, according to M J Nurenberger, was the primary cause for the paralysis of organised and established American Jewry when Jews world-wide began to face the greatest challenge and ultimate tragedy of Jewish history - Hitler’s war against the Six Million and their eventual extermination. Based upon exhaustive research in numerous archives, first-hand eye-witness accounts, and interviews with numerous participants, this book exposes the various events, the internal conflicts and bold initiatives which took place in the relations between the US State Department, the Jewish Establishment and the Irgun. It also includes detailed and careful analyses of the Sternbuch Saga and the Musy Mission to Himmler, both of which were pivotal in sealing the fate of European Jewry.   M J Nurenberger 9780889628489 b/w photos 155x230mm 261 pages Mosaic Press £11.99 pb Shivitti : A Vision Though the author survived two years in Auschwitz, the memories of the horrors he experienced gripped him mercilessly for years until he found relief through psychotherapy. This book is the author's unforgettable memoir of that experience Ka-Tzetnik 135633 9780895561138 140x215mm 120 pages Gateways Books & Tapes £13.99 pb So Others Will Remember : Holocaust History & Survivor Testimony These essays and works by historians, writers, political scientists, artists, lawyers, psychologists, clergy, provide a wide range of perspectives. Rather than pretending to reflect or offer any orthodoxies in Holocaust scholarship or Holocaust education, this collection intentionally deals with a variety of subjects and perspectives as offered by researchers and survivors. So Others Will Remember is a combination of history and memory, or more precisely, of historical analysis and painful recollection. Ronald Headland (ed) 9781550651201 b/w illustrations 155x230mm 248 pages Véhicule Press £17.50 pb