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Mielec, Poland
The book''s 45 visuals include rare documentation of correspondence during the Holocaust. Author Dr Rochelle G Saidel''s research was carried out as a Research Fellow at the Yad Vashem International Research Institute, as well as under the auspices of Remember the Women Institute. Mielec, Poland, is just one of many small dots on the map of the Holocaust, but its remarkable and unique history calls for closer scrutiny. Using an experimental process that was not repeated, the Nazis destroyed the Mielec Jewish community on March 9, 1942. After murdering those deemed too old or disabled to be useful, the German occupiers selected able-bodied survivors (mostly men) for slave labour and then depo...
Legacy and Redemption
Memoirs of a Jew born in 1927 in Działoszyce, Poland. Relates his experiences in the Holocaust (pp. 105-161), including the expulsion of the town's Jews in September 1942 to Miechów, from where his mother was deported and killed. Tenenbaum survived a number of labor camps in or near Kraków, including Płaszów, doing forced labor along with his father and three brothers. He was then sent to the camps of Wieliczka, Mielec, Mauthausen, and Melk, as well as on a death march to Ebensee, where he was liberated. His brothers survived the Holocaust, but his father did not. After the war he became active in the Zionist Revisionist movement and helped smuggle Jews to Palestine. In 1951 he immigrated to North America, living in the U.S. and Toronto. Pp. 369-373 discuss the author's friendship with Elie Wiesel and pp. 421-427 his presence at the Holocaust denial trials of Ernst Zundel and James Keegstra.
Memoirs of an Unfortunate Person
An English translation of a Yiddish manuscript, written by Moty (Mordechai) Stromer (1910-1993) in April-May 1944, while he was hiding at the Jagonia (now Yahidnya) farm, waiting for the liberation of the area from the Nazis. Contains memoirs and diary notes. The German occupation caught Stromer in Kamionka Strumilowa, near Lvov. After having been brutally beaten by Ukrainians, Stromer fled to Lvov and entered the ghetto. In June 1943, having survived numerous Nazi murder actions and forced labor in the Janówska camp, and having lost all of his relatives, Stromer escaped from the ghetto and was hidden by his neighbors in Kamionka, the ethnic German farmer Józef Streker and his wife. After the war Stromer settled in the USA.
On the Fields of Loneliness
Memoirs of a Jew born in 1930 in Brzeżany (eastern Galicia). Notes that the Soviet occupation of his town in 1939-41 did not halt antisemitism, but rather reinforced it. Under German occupation, Altman's father was killed on Yom Kippur of 1941. With his mother and sisters, he attempted to leave Brzeżany and hide with non-Jews; but his three sisters were killed, and he and his mother returned to the Brzeżany ghetto. After the last roundup in June 1943, during which he hid in a bunker prepared by relatives, Altman left the town. He lived in a small family camp in the forest, but after a Nazi raid, he, his cousin and her fiancé left the camp and were hidden and helped by various Polish and Ukrainian peasants. In 1944 they were liberated by the Soviets. After the war, Altman settled in the USA.
Escaping Hell in Treblinka
Presents two accounts by Holocaust survivors. Cymlich's diary was written in 1943 in Polish; it appeared in Spanish translation as "Cuando vengas no encontrarás a nadie...: Diario de un joven judío en Polonia (1939-43)" (Buenos Aires: Acervo Cultural, 1999). The English translation was done by Jerzy Michalowicz. Strawczynski's memoirs appeared in English in "Clouds in the Thirties - on Antisemitism in Canada, 1929-1939" (Montreal: Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives, 1981), translated from the Yiddish ["Bleter far Geszichte" 27 (1989)] by Natalie (Nadia) Strawczynski Rotter.
Path of Hope
Menachem Katz, a Holocaust survivor form the town of Brzezany, was eyewitness to the 1943 Nazi massacre of the towns last remaining Jews who were shot one by one one at the ancient Okopisko cemetery. 18 year old, Munio, as Menachem was known, was part of a group of 300 Jewish men, marked with the letter "W", who worked for the Germany Army, the Wehrmacht. While it was thought that they would have a greater chance of survival, they were the first victims of this last deadly roundup. Munio was th only "W" person to escape and run away. This is his story of survivla.
