Images from the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology
Selecting literature to convey the essence of the Holocaust is difficult because there was no standard Holocaust experience. Each person who experienced the Holocaust - whether victim, witness, resuer, or descendant - has a unique story to tell.\ Selections for this anthology include fiction (both short stories and excepts from novels), poetry, historical accounts, biographical sketches, and drama. Each entry is preceded by a brief biographical note about the author and an introduction. In...
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Selecting literature to convey the essence of the Holocaust is difficult because there was no standard Holocaust experience. Each person who experienced the Holocaust - whether victim, witness, resuer, or descendant - has a unique story to tell. Selections for this anthology include fiction (both short stories and excepts from novels), poetry, historical accounts, biographical sketches, and drama. Each entry is preceded by a brief biographical note about the author and an introduction. In addition, each chapter opens with material that provides historical context for the selections that follow.
PrefaceWhy Remember?4The Roots8They Wanted Everyone to Know Who the Jews Were1439 Casimir-the-Great Street20Other Victims22Before the Storm25We Were Jehovah's Witnesses30Kristallnacht34They Had a System41Singing in the Sun45The Hidden Children46The Survivor of Babi Yar49Noemi53Hiding to Survive54In Hiding59I Shall Live60The Last Jews in Berlin68198071Cast Out75We Came as Children76The Children's Exodus85The Return88Phimosis Is Not Circumcision94The Bitter Years99Escape from Sobibor109Lodz Ghetto117The Sunflower136In the Ghetto139The Collection of Valuables142Volunteers145Leaving the Ghetto149A Cup of Tears155A Girl of Six from the Ghetto168The Unknown Brother and Sister of the Lodz Ghetto169Warsaw in April 1943173Did God Create the Nazis?174The Lemon183A Prelude to Hell203Survival Auschwitz213Street for Arrivals, Street for Departures225Treblinka232Terezin245Stars247September 1944250Gypsies251The Shawl256Taut as a String261A Living Torch265Man's Search for Meaning267Letters from Westerbork271This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen277There Were Those294I Did What Everyone Should Have Done295Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed300Jew, Go Back to the Grave!307August-November 1943310Silence, and a Starry Night316Underground Networks for Child-Rescue317Such Things Are Not Going to Happen to Us323The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising326I, the Survivor336Death against Life337Liberation340The Thaw345Night of Surrender3511728 Hours: A Time to Remember358Silence372Chorus of the Rescued374Steps Beyond the Grave377Searching385Displaced Person's Camp397Reunions403Saving the Fragments410We Didn't Know That You Were Alive418My War Began in 1945425The Awakening43119454351945, The Silence436The Accident437Nobody Has a Right to Kill and Murder Because of Religion or Race446What Happened That Day452A Poem for Anton Schmidt453The Mosaic Artist's Apprentice454Natasha's Triumph456Schindler's Legacy460I Gambled on What Mattered Most468Yugoslavia, 1944474Raoul Wallenberg: Angel of Rescue475Remember My Name (Act 1, Scenes 1-3)491Why Me?514Tell Them I Was There. I'm Real. It Happened520I Must Tell the Story525The Next Generation526Survivor529Children of the Holocaust530Esther
