Survival Artist

A Memoir of the Holocaust

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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This vividly detailed memoir describes the experiences of a Holocaust survivor who narrowly escaped death by living a childhood of constant vigil and, along with his family, continuously dodging the ever-present threat of a Nazi capture.After the Nazi invasion of Poland, the Bergman family's hometown became an increasingly dangerous city in which to live, as evidenced by the author's account of being struck deaf by the butt of a German soldier's rifle while playing in the street with other children. Though traumatic and certainly life-threatening, this vicious attack would ultimately save his life several times. The story continues with vivid accounts of the family's narrow escapes to (and from) the Lodz, Warsaw, and Czestochowa ghettos, describing some of the more horrific vignettes of life in the Jewish ghetto and detailing how some members of the family survived through a fortuitous combination of luck, skilled deception, and an underlying will to live.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2009-07-15
Mått152 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt277 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor204
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786441341

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword by Leon W. Wells Introduction I. The End of an IdyllA Foray into History Growing Up in Poznan The Germans Arrive Escape to Lodz, Escape from Lodz II. Life in the Warsaw GhettoFrom One Ghetto to Another The German Professor My Father the Smuggler The Real and Unreal Worlds Vignettes The Siege and the Escape III. Dodging the PredatorsRescued by Dadek Fobbing Off the Landlord Mysteries of Mimicry The Ghetto Revolts Forays from the Kitchen into the Jungle IV. From the Uprising to LiberationSaved from Drowning and Shooting Inside Insurgent Warsaw I Become a Prisoner of War My Life Among the Punks The Liberation Comes Afterword Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

“should be in all libraries [with collections about the Holocaust]…Bergman’s family lived for a time in the ‘Aryan’ section of Warsaw, his survival dependent upon the black market to earn a living. Of particular interest is Bergman’s account of walking among the [Aryan] population and the fear this engendered in him”—Library Journal; “engrossing memoir”—Washington Jewish Week.