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A Lublin survivor : life is like a dream /

""To this day I am unable to understand how I managed to survive against all odds." So relates the memoir of a young woman, Eva Szek (later Eisenkeit), who survived the Nazi onslaught against Jews in her beloved city of Lublin in Poland, an important centre of Jewish religion and cult...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eisenkeit, Eva, 1919- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Minars, Esther (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Brighton ; Chicago ; Toronto : Sussex Academic Press, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Half Title; Dedication; Epigraph; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; The Illustrations; Acknowledgments and Attributes; Hebrew and Polish Pronunciation Guide; Introduction; Eva's Own Words; Book One There Was a World; Family Connections; The Szek Family; Bubbe Ester; Bajtel Family; Mother's Family; The Real Lubliners; My Parents; Home and Childhood; Holidays; Summers in Swidnik; Newspapers; Theater and Movies; Education; Libraries and Bookstores; Schools; Organizations and Youth Groups; Girlfriends and School Picture; Mother and Mali; Mother's Lublin Kitchen
  • Jewish Lublin on the Eve of DestructionPolish-Jewish Relations; Converts to Christianity and Judaism; Economic Conditions and Poverty; Jewish Institutions and Charities; Religious Life and Maharshal Shil; Class System; Professionals in Lublin; Businesses; Streets and Landmarks; Markets; Infrastructure; Szeroka 40, My Home; My Childhood and the Eiger Family; Reb Szlojmale; Descendants of Reb Avremale and Chana; Lublin, a Gastronomical Delight; My Uncles' Bakeries; Aromas and Tastes of Jewish Lublin; Food Storage; Life Stories; Old Lublin Legends, Traditions and Other Stories
  • Lublin Yiddish SayingsBook Two Life Changed with the Blink of an Eye; Preparation for War; German Invasion and Bombing; The Darkest Day of My life; Germans March into Lublin; Avrum Returns Home; Jews Escape to Russia; Planning to Leave for Russia; Under German Occupation; Life Comes to a Halt; Poverty and Hunger; Poles Under German Occupation; Registration of Jews; Misery; Refugees; Daily Life in the Ghetto; Polish Soldiers; Prisoners of War; The Girl from Torun; Raids and Slave Labor; Lipowa 7; Life After Lipowa; Szewczykowa's Estate; Graf's Estate; Trading in the Villages
  • Conditions in the VillagesVillage Folks; Bringing Food into the Ghetto; Turowski Family; Moving out of the Ghetto; Back in Lublin; Typhus Epidemic; The Lublin Ghetto is Closed; Escaping the Ghetto; My Life in the Village; Village People and Stories; My Brothers; Mother and Sisters Hiding; Three Jews Working in the Village; The Sztajnzalc Family; Huge Pits; Life Continues; Lublin District is Judenrein; Slave Labor at the Military Barracks; Trying to Save Ourselves; I Want to Live; Hiding; The War Drags On; Mr. X Throws Us Out; Thrown Out Again; Life Goes On in Hiding; Jankiel and Boaz
  • Loss and SurvivalBook Three The Russians Are Coming; The Russians
  • Allies of the Jews; Negotiating Our Freedom; Leaving the Hiding Hole; We are Free; Return to Lublin; Life in Liberated Lublin; At the Red Cross; At the Russian Military Hospital; Life in My Hometown; Return to Szeroka Street; Meeting Chela and Zoszka; Life at the Red Cross; More Survivors in Lublin; The Buchbinder and Szlingerbaum Families; Perale and her Husband; More Survivors; Szlimak's Mill; At the Jewish Committee; Zosza (Doba) Cukierman; Dora Minc (aka Julia Celinska); Life Resumes in Lublin; Finding an Apartment