Part detective story and part multi-generational saga, is Ariana Neumann’s memoir about her father’s incredible survival in 1940s Berlin. Toronto 22 St Clair Ave. E, Suite 202 Toronto ON M4T 2S3 416-322-5928 . Delve deeper into the lives of the survivors through rare interview footage, memoir excerpts, photographs, artifacts and an interactive timeline and map in our new digital platform. I don’t know why I wasn’t afraid. Montréal QC A foundational piece of Holocaust literature, NIGHT is the thoughtful and brutal memoir from Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. In FOUR PERFECT PEBBLES, Marion Blumenthal and her family – her mother, father, and brother, Albert – embark on a terrifying, unbelievable odyssey through Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe. Born: life within the camp, but the unbelievable, explosive adventure of his escape from the Nazis. surviving through love and sheer force of will. April 21, 1931 On the eve of heart surgery, she finally shared the materials that would later become this heartbreaking, intimate memoir with her daughter. He has been influenced by his Jewish heritage, his Christian boarding school education in England, and the always present question, “For what purpose was I spared the Holocaust?”. To order memoirs, organize an event in your school or for more information: resources@azrielifoundation.org. Pruszków, Poland. November 18, 1925 As soon as I heard the airplane engines I ran upstairs to watch the bombers approaching. Lodz, Poland. In uncovering her father’s story after all these years, she discovers nuance and depth to her own history and liberates poignant and thought-provoking truths about the threads of humanity that connect us all. In MY TRAIN TO FREEDOM, Backer’s unforgettable tale is brought together with other historical contexts and harrowing first-person accounts from his family. Beregszász, Czechoslovakia. Ten years later Ariana finally summoned the courage to have the letters translated, and she began reading. H3B 3S3 Born: I want the next generations to know about these bright points that we can be proud of, and honour ourselves and our names. On the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau, and a few days before VE Day, we want to highlight nine memoirs that attempt to communicate the seemingly inexpressible: The Holocaust and the scars it left behind. The final train was canceled September 1 when Hitler invaded Poland. Antwerp, Belgium, "Don’t move. I wouldn’t confess to being Jewish this time, knowing it would mean certain death. May 19, 1932 For six and a half years the. December 09, 1920 You'll see. You must be logged in to add books to your shelf. There was no room for standing or moving. Detailed in this page-turning true story is Backer’s dangerous escape, his boyhood in England, his perilous 1944 voyage to America, and his mantra today. Writing in English in 1943, after his risky escape to freedom in the United States, Hélion vividly depicts the sights, sounds, and smells of the camps, and shrewdly sizes up both captors and captured. ", Born: Born: A luminous family memoir from the author of the critically acclaimed Boston Globe bestseller, After Long Silence, lauded as “mesmerizing” (The Washington Post Book World), “extraordinary” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), and “a triumphant work of art” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). For nearly fifty years, Sala Kirschner kept a secret: She had survived five years as a slave in seven different Nazi work camps. July 21, 1932 I am no longer who I used to be... All I have left is hope. 22 St Clair Ave. E, Suite 202 Born: Since Wiesel recorded his story of survival and terror in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the Holocaust memoir has been an important part of the literary canon as well as the American experience (Wiesel emigrated to the United States in 1955). Budapest, Hungary. Page 8/23. The siren at 5:00 a.m. woke us to the morning reality of roll call. Edie spent decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor’s guilt, determined to stay silent and hide from the past. Turka, Poland. September 17, 1928 My tears, like the words of the prayer, fell like fresh dew: pure, delicate, unadulterated, honest words, and pure, delicate, unadulterated, honest tears. It includes interviews he conducted in 1980 in Czech with his mother and her sister, later translated into English; a collection of conversations he had with his older brother and cousin; insights gained from the Czech film, Nicky’s Family, about the Kindertransport; and concludes with never-before-published death march accounts by two family members. In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.