Memories, Dreams, Nightmares

by Weiss, Jack

• ISBN13: 9781552381267
• ISBN10: 1552381269
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-30
• Publisher: Univ of Calgary Pr

Summary

The compelling memoir tells the story of Holocaust survivor Jack Weiss. This is the story of his abused childhood, how a deported eleven-year old boy escaped from certain death to join his father in the middle of a war. He was deported again to the infamous Auschwitz/Bierkenau concentration camp where he was selected for forced labour. Somehow, he miraculously survived these horrors, and at the age of 17, he was brought by the Canadian Jewish Congress to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where was finally able to carve out a life for himself.

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
Introduction	xiii
PART ONE: EUROPE (1930-47)
Early Years	2	(9)
Stepchild	11	(8)
Sink or Swim	19	(4)
School Daze	23	(7)
Bloodless Invasion	30	(6)
Exile	36	(23)
Repatriation	59	(8)
Farm Life	67	(4)
Homeless	71	(20)
Employment	91	(7)
Deportation	98	(15)
Beast of Burden	113	(28)
Death March	141	(25)
Liberation	166	(9)
Home	175	(7)
"Nobody likes Jews"	182	(3)
In Transit	185	(15)
Kibbutznik	200	(26)
Outcast	226	(12)
The End of the Beginning	238	(10)
At Sea	248	(6)
PART Two: CANADA (1948-2001)
Jack Weiss, Canadian	254	(10)
Growing Up	264	(9)
Old Scars, New Wounds	273	(7)
Belated Aliyah	280	(17)
Aftershock	297	(3)
Golden Years	300	(8)
Summing Up	308	(5)
Epilogue	313