Flares of memory : stories of childhood during the Holocaust /
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. |
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| Description: | xxxix, 344 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4436789 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Timeline of the Holocaust
- Map of Concentration Camps in Europe
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. Snapshots: Jewish Life Before the Holocaust
- Snapshots
- War Arrives in Lithuania
- A German Family
- Betrayal
- Parting
- II. The Destruction of a Society
- Herr B
- A Kristallnacht Journey
- An Action Against the Jews
- Leaving Germany, Leaving Home
- Escape to England
- The Best-Laid Plans
- A Life-Defining Impression
- The Harbinger of What?
- The Beginning and the End
- A Family Gone, One by One
- The Abandonment of Mielec
- A Shtetl's Life is Ended
- What Ever Happened to the Jews of Skudvil?
- III. Ruthlessness as a System
- In the Dark
- Theresienstadt
- Dachau
- Auschwitz, 1944
- The Tenth Woman on Block Ten
- The Means to Survive
- The Gypsies
- Nazi Murderers
- How Many Made It?
- The Law in Lithuania
- Horrors of War
- IV. The Lottery of Death and Life
- German Roulette
- My Sister Rieke
- A Definition of Survival
- An Unforgettable Passover Seder
- Trying to Go Home
- Bar Mitzvah Boy
- The Skull with the Golden Braid
- The Concentration Camp Lottery
- The Girl with Wooden Shoes
- The Wagon
- The Child
- V. Disguise as a Way of Hiding
- In Constant Terror
- Posing as a Christian
- I Choose Life
- Lost Families
- Beyond Memory
- A Hidden Child in Greece
- VI. The Sustaining Power of Family Love
- The Promise
- A Mother's Courage
- Miracles
- A Dream of Milk
- In Praise of Manual Labor
- A Son in Deed
- The Psychologist
- VII. The Virtuous and the Vicious
- A Narrow Escaper
- The Kindness of Strangers
- A Saintly Person
- The Convent in Marseilles
- Among the Righteous
- The Killing Hunger
- Captain Zimmer
- The Volunteer Group
- Mazel
- The Farmer Kowarski
- A Surprise Package
- VIII. Disguise as a Way of Hiding
- Lithuanian Friends
- Unsung Heroes
- Friend or Enemy?
- Resist in Everything!
- IX. Emergence into Light
- The Golden Chain of Judaism
- Flight to Freedom
- The Last Hiding Place
- One Day War, the Next Day Not
- The Long Road After Liberation
- On the Way to Health
- An Ending and a Beginning
- The Tiny Flame
- X. The Aftermath: Remembering
- The Aftermath
- The Barber
- Kaleidoscope Salonika, Greece, 1945
- The Sewing Basket
- Children from the Camps Going to England
- The Chief of the Gestapo
- Herr Schluemper
- The Miracle
- To Bear Witness About the Holocaust
- It Shall Not Be Forgotten nor Forgiven!
- Addendum Seen with My Own Eyes: Stories by American Liberators
- The Photograph
- Germany, 1945: View from a Tank
- Gusen a Nurse's Tale
- A Letter from Dachau
- I Saw Buchenwald
- Re-Entry
- Biographies of Survivor-Authors
- Biographies of Survivor-Authors
- Photographs of Liberator-Authors
- Author Index
- Story Index