My bones don't rest in Auschwitz : a lonely battle to survive German tyranny /
Memoirs of a Jew (nee Kaplan), born in 1923 in Siedlce, Poland, describing her and her family's experiences after the German occupation. On 7 September 1939 her father disappeared while returning from Warsaw. He traded in shoemakers' trimmings. Gitel and her three siblings continued to wor...
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| Language: | English |
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Montreal :
Kaplan,
1999, c1995
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| Summary: | Memoirs of a Jew (nee Kaplan), born in 1923 in Siedlce, Poland, describing her and her family's experiences after the German occupation. On 7 September 1939 her father disappeared while returning from Warsaw. He traded in shoemakers' trimmings. Gitel and her three siblings continued to work in the trade up through 1942. In spring 1940, Gitel and her sister Pearl opened a shop in Warsaw; it was enclosed in the ghetto in November. Gitel returned to Siedlce, carrying on the trade in leather and rubber. In fall 1941, Gitel, her brother Chaim, her stepmother and half-brother moved to Miedzyrzec. In early 1942, they got their younger sister, Rifka, out of the Siedlce ghetto and Pearl out of the Warsaw ghetto. In the first "action" in Miedzyrzec in August 1942, the stepmother and little brother were deported. The four siblings managed to avoid four deportations by hiding, but in the fifth one Rifka was caught. In May 1943, Gitel, Pearl, and Chaim escaped to Upper Silesia, but they ended up in a Jewish ghetto, and were finally interned in the Srodula camp (a suburb of Sosnowiec). In December, Chaim was killed while trying to escape. In January 1944, when Srodula was liquidated, Gitel and Pearl escaped to the Sudetenland and survived by posing as Polish laborers. Rifka survived Majdanek and several labor camps. After the war, Pearl and Rifka emigrated to Palestine. Gitel married and emigrated to Canada with her husband in 1951 |
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| Physical Description: | 319 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0968376304 9780968376300 |