Jack and Rochelle

Jack and Rochelle PDF Author: Jack Sutin
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504015681
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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The memoir of a man and woman who escaped into the forest, joined the Jewish partisans—and fell in love—as Hitler laid waste to their Polish hometowns. Jack and Rochelle first met at a youth dance in Poland before the war. They shared one dance, and Jack stepped on Rochelle’s shoes. She was unimpressed. When the Nazis invaded eastern Poland in 1941, both Jack (in the town of Mir) and Rochelle (in the town of Stolpce) witnessed the horrors of ghettoization, forced labor, and mass killings that decimated their families. Jack and Rochelle managed, in their separate ways, to escape into the forest. They reunited, against all odds, in the winter of 1942–43 and became Jewish partisans who fought back against the Nazis. The couple’s careful courtship soon blossomed into an enduring love that sustained them through the raging hatred of the Holocaust and the destruction of the lives they had known. Jack and Rochelle’s story, told in their own voices through extensive interviews with their son, Lawrence, has been in print for twenty years and is celebrated as a classic of Holocaust memoir literature. This is the first electronic edition. “A story of heroism and of touching romance in a time of fear and danger.” —USA Today

Jack and Rochelle

Jack and Rochelle PDF Author: Jack Sutin
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504015681
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Book Description
The memoir of a man and woman who escaped into the forest, joined the Jewish partisans—and fell in love—as Hitler laid waste to their Polish hometowns. Jack and Rochelle first met at a youth dance in Poland before the war. They shared one dance, and Jack stepped on Rochelle’s shoes. She was unimpressed. When the Nazis invaded eastern Poland in 1941, both Jack (in the town of Mir) and Rochelle (in the town of Stolpce) witnessed the horrors of ghettoization, forced labor, and mass killings that decimated their families. Jack and Rochelle managed, in their separate ways, to escape into the forest. They reunited, against all odds, in the winter of 1942–43 and became Jewish partisans who fought back against the Nazis. The couple’s careful courtship soon blossomed into an enduring love that sustained them through the raging hatred of the Holocaust and the destruction of the lives they had known. Jack and Rochelle’s story, told in their own voices through extensive interviews with their son, Lawrence, has been in print for twenty years and is celebrated as a classic of Holocaust memoir literature. This is the first electronic edition. “A story of heroism and of touching romance in a time of fear and danger.” —USA Today

New Perspectives on the Holocaust

New Perspectives on the Holocaust PDF Author: Rochelle L. Millen
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814755402
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 405

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Book Description
Authors involved in teaching about the Holocaust offer guidance and confront issues related to teaching about the Holocaust.

Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew

Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew PDF Author: Dan Vittorio Segre
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226744779
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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“I was probably less than five years old when my father fired a shot at my head.” From this first line, Dan Vittorio Segre’s memoir moves from one startling turning point to the next. The child of aristocratic parents, Segre fled Fascist Italy and Mussolini’s anti-Semitic laws only to be thrust into the pioneering culture of Palestine, completely unprepared for the dangers of life in Israel during World War II. Beautifully narrated, Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew is an ironic, philosophical meditation on the historical reverberations of the twentieth century. “Taut and illuminating . . . memorable . . . written with the humility of he who confesses himself and with the honesty of he who bore witness.”—Primo Levi “The writing of memoirs is a difficult art that Dan Segre fully possesses. Under his pen, history and psychology merge in one captivating narrative which illuminates the turmoils, fears and triumphs of his generation.”—Elie Wiesel “Beautifully written. . . . [A] labyrinthine, spell-binding autobiography, full of passionate tenderness.”—New York Review of Books “An unusually attractive book—attractive in its irony, its energy and its moral insight. Mr. Segre had some rich material to work with, and he has done it justice.”—New York Times

A Postcard Memoir

A Postcard Memoir PDF Author: Lawrence Sutin
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 9781555973049
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Book Description
A humorous & insightful memoir of everday life told through pieces inspired by a series of quirky antique postcards.

By Bread Alone

By Bread Alone PDF Author: Melvin Mermelstein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Sweet Deception

Sweet Deception PDF Author: Rochelle Alers
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1488786208
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Law professor Myles Eaton knows a lot can happen in ten years. A decade ago, Philadelphia's finest bachelor was a hotshot attorney engaged to a woman he swore he'd love forever--until she left him to marry a powerful politician. The only thing more difficult than forgiving her has been forgetting the searing heat they shared. And just when Myles is sure he's over her, Zabrina Cooper arrives back in his life. Nothing could stop Zabrina from loving Myles, not even when she was blackmailed into becoming wife--in name only--to another man. And as her secrets are revealed, Zabrina has one summer to convince Myles that beyond their incredible chemistry is a soul-deep bond that never faded.

Ravensbrück

Ravensbrück PDF Author: Jack Gaylord Morrison
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
ISBN: 9781558762190
Category : Women concentration camp inmates
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Attempting to reconstruct the workings of everyday life in the concentration camp at Ravensbruck--the only camp in the Nazi system designed for women--Morrison (history, Shippensburg U.) examines the prisoners' social relationships with each other and their overlords; prisoner activities, from bartering to storytelling, from political maneuvering to coping with body lice, and, of course, the kinds of forced labor performed (Ravensbruck was a labor camp, not an extermination camp); and the occurrences of sickness, death, and killing at the camp. The volume is illustrated with drawings by inmates, and photos by the SS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Because of Romek

Because of Romek PDF Author: David Faber
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976876328
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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This is a nonfiction, autobiographical narrative from the point of view of a teenager during the Holocaust of World War II--the riveting, true story of a young boy's survival in the face of Nazi atrocities. David Faber survived eight concentration camps between the ages of 13-18, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Bergen-Belsen. Because of Romek fulfills his promise to his dead mother to tell the world what happened. Reprint.

Jack and Rochelle

Jack and Rochelle PDF Author: Jack Sutin
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417697724
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :

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The authors recount how they escaped from Nazi ghetto labor camps and became resistance fighters

Fugitives of the Forest

Fugitives of the Forest PDF Author: Allan Levine
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461750059
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Book Description
The heroic story of Jewish resistance and survival during the Second World War.