Through Blood and Tears Surviving Hitler and Stalin

by Skorr, Henrik; Sokolov, Ivan; Gillis, Daniel; Shostak, Arthur

• ISBN13: 9780853034773
• ISBN10: 085303477X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-01
• Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell

Summary

"Henry Skorr has told his story, in a series of interviews conducted by Ivan Sokolov, in an effort to preserve the memory of those he loved, and a world that no longer exists. Henry takes the reader from his childhood in Kalisz, Poland, through the horrors of the Nazi occupation, the insanity and brutality of the Soviet system, the corruption of the newly re-formed Poland, and finally to the shores of Israel. The main part of the story deals with his time in the Soviet Union, providing the reader with a rare insight into the plight of Polish-Jewish refugees, as well as native Russians, during the war years. The memoir adds an important voice to the catalogue of survivors' tales; with courage and honesty, Henry Skorr articulately presents us with the Soviet experience, giving voice to the thousands who fled east and the millions he found there."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	vii
The Library of Holocaust Testimonies by Sir Martin Gilbert	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Preface by Daniel Gillis	xiii
Foreword by Ann Weiss	xvii
Introduction by Arthur B. Shostak	xxv
Part I The Way It Was
1 Kalisz life	3	(15)
2 My family: such warm memories	18	(9)
3 Growing up, standing tall	27	(12)
4 Something unfamiliar, something horrible	39	(12)
Part II Nazi Occupation
5 Caught behind the lines	51	(14)
6 The Gestapo moves in	65	(15)
7 Moraviny	80	(17)
8 Escape	97	(18)
Part III Life in Russia
9 Refugees	115	(25)
10 The forest	140	(34)
11 On the river	174	(19)
12 Return to defenses	193	(27)
13 My Soviet life	220	(45)
14 Tension	265	(40)
Part IV Poland and Israel
15 Return to Poland	305	(22)
16 A new beginning	327	(25)
17 The experiment fails	352	(20)
18 Coming home	372	(12)
Author's Note	384