In Fragile Moments / The Last Time
Born two hundred kilometres away from each other and two years apart, Zsuzsanna Fischer and Eva Steinberger are both thrown into chaos when Germany occupies Hungary and destroys their peaceful childhoods.
Born two hundred kilometres away from each other and two years apart, Zsuzsanna Fischer and Eva Steinberger are both thrown into chaos when Germany occupies Hungary and destroys their peaceful childhoods.
"I'm ready, but I'm overcome with sadness. Mama hugs us and kisses us: 'Goodbye, children! Go, and don't look back . . . '"
A heart-wrenching memoir about what is was like growing up in Nazi Occupied Hungary, and what one had to do in order to try and survive.
An idealist and a dreamer, orphaned Icchok Klein comes under the protective wing of those in charge of the Lodz ghetto, including the powerful Mordechai Rumkowski.
"There was a feeling of imminent danger. . . . we were all subject to the mad and ever-changing rules of Hitler's Germany. We were desperate to find a safe haven."
This gripping volume offers the reader the rare opportunity to read survival stories from two members of the same family.
"I was surprised that Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist, would talk to me not as a Jew but as a normal person . . . I thought that I must be having a nice dream."
Filled with determination and bravery, this is the poignant account of George Stern's Vanished Boyhood.
When the Nazis invade Hungary on March 19, 1944, elementary school teacher Helena Jockel can only think about how to save "her" children.
“The pen is shaking in my paralyzed hand as I write: I AM ALIVE! I am alive and it is May again. The lilacs are in bloom and I smell their sweet fragrance again. There was springtime last year as well, but we had no eyes for beauty. Our lips forgot how to smile, our hearts were shattered! And now I’m alive again!”
A tragic, yet inspiring story of how a little girl loses everyone she knows and loves during WWII, but who remembers the last words her father ever said to her, which helps her build a new life in a new land.
A moving, true story, told in four separate parts with four different authors, each telling a piece of the tale of a harrowing journey to freedom.