Images from the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology

by Brown, Jean; Rubin, Janet; Stephens, Elaine

• ISBN13: 9780844259208
• ISBN10: 0844259209
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-02-09
• Publisher: Ecampus Direct

Summary

Selecting literature to convey the essence of the Holocaust is difficult because there was no standard Holocaust experience. Each person who experienced the Holocaust - whether victim, witness, resuer, or descendant - has a unique story to tell. Selections for this anthology include fiction (both short stories and excepts from novels), poetry, historical accounts, biographical sketches, and drama. Each entry is preceded by a brief biographical note about the author and an introduction. In addition, each chapter opens with material that provides historical context for the selections that follow.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Rumblings of Danger	1	(42)
Why Remember?	4	(4)
Milton Meltzer
The Roots	8	(6)
Barbara Rogasky
They Wanted Everyone to Know Who the Jews Were	14	(6)
David A. Adler
39 Casimir-the-Great Street	20	(2)
Yala Korwin
Other Victims	22	(3)
Ina R. Friedman
Before the Storm	25	(5)
Richard Plant
We Were Jehovah's Witnesses	30	(4)
Ina R. Friedman
Kristallnacht	34	(7)
Werner Weinberg
They Had a System	41	(2)
Yala Korwin
In Hiding	43	(30)
Singing in the Sun	45	(1)
Yala Korwin
The Hidden Children	46	(3)
Kristine Keren
Jane Marks
The Survivor of Babi Yar	49	(4)
Othniel J. Seiden
Noemi	53	(1)
Yala Korwin
Hiding to Survive	54	(5)
Andy Sterling
Maxine B. Rosenberg
In Hiding	59	(1)
Helen Degan Cohen
I Shall Live	60	(8)
Henry Orenstein
The Last Jews in Berlin	68	(3)
Leonard Gross
1980	71	(2)
Abraham Sutzkever
Fleeing for Their Lives	73	(42)
Cast Out	75	(1)
Karen Gershon
We Came as Children	76	(9)
Karen Gershon
The Children's Exodus	85	(3)
Karen Gershon
The Return	88	(6)
Arnost Lusting
Phimosis is Not Circumcision	94	(5)
Joseph Joffo
The Bitter Years	99	(10)
Richard Petrow
Escape from Sobibor	109	(6)
Richard Rashke
Surrounded	115	(86)
Ghetto Walls
Lodz Ghetto	117	(19)
Dawid Sierakowiak
The Sunflower	136	(3)
Simon Wiesenthal
In the Ghetto	139	(3)
Harry Gordon
The Collection of Valuables	142	(3)
Harry Gordon
Volunteers	145	(4)
Vladka Meed
Leaving the Ghetto	149	(6)
Vladka Meed
A Cup of Tears	155	(13)
Abraham Lewin
A Girl of Six from the Ghetto	168	(1)
Jerzy Ficowski
The Unknown Brother and Sister of the Lodz Ghetto	169	(4)
Laurel Holliday
Warsaw in April 1943	173	(1)
Stanislaw Marczak-Oborski
Did God Create the Nazis?	174	(9)
Lawrence Bush
The Lemon	183	(18)
Arnost Lustig
Imprisoned in the Camps	201	(92)
A Prelude to Hell	203	(10)
Elio Romano
Survival in Auschwitz	213	(12)
Primo Levi
Street for Arrivals, Street for Departures	225	(7)
Charlotte Delbo
Treblinka	232	(13)
Frank Stiffel
Terezin	245	(2)
Hanus Hachenburg
Stars	247	(3)
Yaffa Eliach
September 1944	250	(1)
Charles Fishman
Gypsies	251	(5)
Charlotte Delbo
The Shawl	256	(5)
Cynthia Ozick
Taut as a String	261	(4)
Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
A Living Torch	265	(2)
Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
Man's Search for Meaning	267	(4)
Viktor E. Frankl
Letters from Westerbork	271	(6)
Etty Hillesum
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen	277	(16)
Tadeusz Borowski
Resisting Evil	293	(42)
There Were Those	294	(1)
Susan Dambroff
I Did What Everyone Should Have Done	295	(5)
Arie Van Mansum
Gay Block
Malka Drucker
Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed	300	(7)
Philip P. Hallie
Jew, Go Back to the Grave!	307	(3)
Yaffa Eliach
August---November 1943	310	(6)
Primo Levi
Silence, and a Starry Night	316	(1)
Hirsh Glik
Underground Networks for Child-Rescue	317	(6)
Anny Latour
Such Things Are Not Going to Happen to Us	323	(3)
Chaim Asa
Carol Rittner
Sandra Myer
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising	326	(9)
Vladka Meed
Liberation	335	(40)
I, the Survivor	336	(1)
Bertolt Brecht
Death against Life	337	(3)
Elie Wiesel
Liberation	340	(5)
Lucille Eichengreen
The Thaw	345	(6)
Primo Levi
Night of Surrender	351	(7)
Ida Fink
1728 Hours: A Time to Remember	358	(14)
Michael Seizer
Silence	372	(2)
Tadeusz Borowski
Chorus of the Rescued	374	(1)
Nelly Sachs
The Days After	375	(70)
Steps Beyond the Grave	377	(8)
Simon Wiesenthal
Searching	385	(12)
Dov Beril Edelstein
Displaced Person's Camp	397	(6)
Lucille Eichengreen
Reunions	403	(7)
Bernard Gotfryd
Saving the Fragments	410	(8)
Isabella Leitner
We Didn't Know That You Were Alive	418	(7)
Helen Epstein
My War Began in 1945	425	(6)
Deborah Dwork
The Awakening	431	(4)
Primo Levi
1945	435	(1)
Bernard S. Mikofsky
1945, The Silence	436	(1)
Burton D. Wasserman
The Accident	437	(8)
Elie Wiesel
A Mosaic of Courage	445	(68)
Nobody Has a Right to Kill and Murder Because of Religion or Race	446	(6)
Irene Opdyke
Control Rittner
Sandra Myer
What Happened That Day	452	(1)
Luba Krugman Gurdus
A Poem for Anton Schmidt	453	(1)
William Pillin
The Mosaic Artist's Apprentice	454	(2)
Yaffa Eliach
Natasha's Triumph	456	(4)
Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
Schindler's Legacy	460	(8)
Elinor J. Brecher
I Gambled on What Mattered Most	468	(6)
Hannah Senesh
Yugoslavia, 1944	474	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Raoul Wallenberg: Angel of Rescue	475	(16)
Harvey Rosenfeld
Remember My Name (Act 1, Scenes 1--3)	491	(22)
Joanna H. Kraus
Echoing Reflections	513	(56)
Why Me?	514	(6)
Ernst Papanek
Tell Them I Was There. I'm Real. It Happened	520	(5)
David A. Adler
I Must Tell the Story	525	(1)
Emily Borenstein
The Next Generation	526	(3)
Arnold Zable
Survivor	529	(1)
Florence Weinberger
Children of the Holocaust	530	(13)
Helen Epstein
Esther	543	(7)
Richard Rashke
1988	550	(4)
Valerie Jakober Furth
Babi Yar	554	(2)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Dedication	556	(1)
Czeslaw Milosz
A Shayna Maidel (Act 2, Scene 3)	557	(12)
Barbara Lebow
Acknowledgments	569	(6)
Index of Authors and Titles	575