Say the Name : A Survivor's Tale in Prose and Poetry

by Sherman, Judith H.; Carrasco, David

• ISBN13: 9780826334312
• ISBN10: 0826334318
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

Vividly describes in the voice of a fourteen-year-old the experiences of a Jewish girl who was imprisoned in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp during World War II. Miraculously, Judita Sternova of Kurima, Czechoslovakia, survives persecutions, hiding, flight, capture, deportation, and the Camp. Like the few other surviving Jews, she could not bear to remain in her village emptied of family and other Jews and emigrates to England and, eventually, the United States. After more than fifty years Sherman gets up from her years of memories, private resistance, and public silence to write this book. She is triggered to do so upon hearing a lecture by Professor Carrasco at Princeton on 'Religion and the Terror of History'. The narrative is interspersed with Sherman's powerful poems that grab the reader's attention. Poignant original drawings made secretly by imprisoned women of Ravensbruck, at risk of their lives, illuminate the text. Sherman courageously bears witness to the terror of man and simultaneously challenges God for answers.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD	ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xix
PREFACE	xxi
CHAPTER ONE Home in Kurima	1	(20)
CHAPTER TWO Deportations	21	(14)
CHAPTER THREE Hiding	35	(16)
CHAPTER FOUR Prison	51	(12)
CHAPTER FIVE Ravensbrück	63	(30)
CHAPTER SIX The Apple Eater	93	(32)
CHAPTER SEVEN Siemens Sub-Camp	125	(8)
CHAPTER EIGHT Leaving Camp	133	(8)
CHAPTER NINE Liberation	141	(10)
CHAPTER TEN After	151