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New Yad Vashem Publications
by
Herman Kahan
Yad Vashem,
2005
246 pp., soft cover, 13X21 cm.
Chaim Hersh Kahan is from Elie Wiesel’s home town of Sighet,
Transylvania. His happy pre-war childhood and yeshiva studies were
disrupted when he was closed into the ghetto and then transported to
Auschwitz. He survived selection by Mengele, along with his father,
and entered slave labor in Wolfsberg and Ebensee. Sustained by his
father’s spiritual strength, Kahan survived and was eventually
liberated. The book is both a memorial for his family and a “thank
you letter” to Norway, an acknowledgment of the decency of some
human beings.
Foreword by Elie Wiesel.
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by Sol Silberzweig
Yad Vashem,
2005
178 pp., soft cover, 14X21 cm.
The youngest of
seven children, Sol Silberzweig was born in Warsaw in 1917 to a
traditional Jewish family. When the war broke out in 1939, trapped
in the Warsaw ghetto, Sol met a childhood sweetheart, Gittel. Their
lives were intertwined throughout the war as both went from
concentration camp to concentration camp. At war’s end, traveling
all around Europe, Sol found Gittel, and the couple married. Arriving in the US,
Sol set up a fur business and fighting the American Unions along the
way, established a successful, international business. Tragically
and ironically, while on a business trip in Germany, Gittel was
killed in a car accident.
This book is dedicated to the memory of Szulem and Gittel
Silberzweig.
by Gabriel Mermall and
Norbert J. Yasharoff
Yad Vashem, 2006
173 pp.
This volume
consists of two memoirs:
1) Seeds of Grace: The Diary of Gabriel Mermall: This diary
relates the story of Gabor Mermelstein (Gabriel Mermall) as a slave
laborer in the Hungarian military’s Labor Service, and his rescue in
1944 together with his young son. Unable to rescue his wife, who was
deported to Auschwitz, Gabor hid with his son in the Ruthenian
forests. A poor Hungarian lumberjack, Ivan Gartner, generously
supplied then with food for more than six months and ultimately hid
them in his hayloft.
2) Reaching the Light at the End of the Tunnel, by Norbert
Yasharoff. As an eleven-year-old, Norbert Yasharoff was forced to
move with his family to the Sofia ghetto, an experience that
inspired him to express himself through poetry. The family was later
evicted to Pleven and, following the war, lived under communist rule
in Sofia. Norbert assisted his father, an attorney, in the postwar
defense of Dimitur Peshev, who had been instrumental in preventing
the deportation of Bulgarian Jews to death camps. Yasharoff relates
his experiences as a student and writer at Sofia University, and
then of his immigration to Israel.
by Hersch Altman
Yad Vashem, 2006
184 pp.
This is the
remarkable memoir of a young boy who survived the murders of his
father, mother and three sisters and the destruction of his
hometown, while evading his pursuers during the Holocaust. Born to
an affluent merchant and Jewish community leader, Hersch Altman
vividly depicts his early years in Brzezany, and recounts in vibrant
detail the hardships his family endured during the Soviet
occupation. He goes on to relate the brutality of the Nazi
occupation, the intolerable life in the ghetto, the horrors of the
Aktionen and the ingeniously constructed bunker in which he
hid and managed to elude the Nazis. The reader cannot help but share
in the author’s fears, sadness and loneliness in hiding – in barns,
forests, fields and attics. The unanswerable question, “why me,
G-d?” echoes throughout this gripping tale.
By E. H. (Dan)
Kampelmacher
Yad Vashem, 2006
172 pp.
This is the story of an
eighteen-year-old boy who left his family and fled his native Vienna
to Holland. There, as an illegal refugee, he was imprisoned in the
state prison at Veenhuizen, where he wrote a diary relating his
experiences. The book goes on to tell of his survival during the war
– working on Dutch farms, acquiring forged documents from the
underground and, from 1942, hiding in Charlotte van Dijk’s home in
Utrecht. In 1943, he worked for the Dutch Psychotecnic Foundation in
Utrecht. Though his employers knew he was Jewish, they did not turn
him in to the authorities. The diary ends on December 31, 1938, with
the question “where will I be next New Year’s eve?” The memoir
completes this dramatic story.
Edited by Yehudit Shendar, 2006
Bilingual English/Hebrew edition
104 pp., soft cover, 20X24 cm.
Viewers joining the six-decade-long journey of
Samuel Bak’s works are presented with a multi-faceted experience -
an encounter with an artist dealing head-on with the basic question
of “how” underlying the language of art, with an artist debating
with himself about the abstract, the figurative and the gamut
between them.
Like his fellow survivors, Bak at first wrapped himself in silence,
seeking to forge for himself an Israeli identity after his
immigration to the country in 1948. Gradually, as his path took him
across countries and continents, he shed the cloak of silence until
he felt that he could no longer keep the burden locked inside. Thus
began a journey of a different kind. His varying stylistic periods
reveal an artist capable of producing fine pencil drawings in the
classical tradition, as well as thick, layered oil brushstrokes of
pasticcio color on large canvasses. Every period reveals a little
but conceals twice as much about the man's inner burden. The journey
and burden are shaped into a single identity which, while it may be
paradigmatic, is nevertheless unique and private - the arduous road
of Samuel Bak spanning sixty years of creativity.
Edited by David Bankier
In association with Enigma Books
Yad Vashem,
2006
380 pp., soft cover, 15X23 cm.
When and how did the Allies find out about the Holocaust? What were
the intelligence sources that revealed the information? This collection
of research studies digs deeply into this sensitive issue, shedding
new light on the extent to which the Allies understood what was
happening in Nazi-occupied Europe during the Second World War.
Most chapters are the product of research conducted by scholars from
a variety of countries and institutions using intelligence records
declassified by the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act in the United
States and by the British government.
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