Transcending Darkness
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Transcending Darkness

A Girl’s Journey Out of the Holocaust

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Transcending Darkness

A Girl’s Journey Out of the Holocaust

About this book

"Please, Mama, I don't want to live like this," pleaded twelve-year-old Estelle Glaser's older sister as they watched the bodies of friends dangle from the gibbet in the center of the appelplatz of the Madjanek concentration camp. "I cannot take the indignities and brutalities. Let's step forward and make them kill us now."But Estelle's mother fiercely responded to her two daughters: No! Life is sacred. It is noble to fight to stay alive.Their mother's indomitable will was a major factor in the trio's survival in the face of brutal odds. But Estelle recognized other heroes in the ghetto and camps as well, righteous individuals who stood out like beacons and kept their spirits alive. Their father was one, as were hungry teachers in dim, cold rooms who risked their lives to secretly teach imprisoned children. Estelle herself learned to draw on a joyful past, and to bring her own light into the void. Estelle's memoir, published sixty-four years after her liberation from the Nazis, is a narrative of fear and hope and resiliency. While it is a harrowing tale of destruction and loss, it is also a story of the goodness that still exists in a dark world, of survival and renewal.Also 04 Activeable in e-book formats, 978-0-89672-800-4

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Illustrations
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chronology of Upheavals that Led to World War
  9. Part I: War
  10. 1 Strong! United! Ready!
  11. 2 Invasion
  12. 3 Ghetto and Moral Resistance
  13. 4 Deportation
  14. 5 No Place for Children
  15. 6 Subghettos
  16. 7 The Uprising and the End of the Warsaw Ghetto
  17. 8 Tata’s Last Word
  18. 9 Majdanek
  19. 10 Longing
  20. 11 Skarźysko
  21. 12 Częstochowa
  22. Part II: Liberation
  23. 13 A Miracle
  24. 14 The Old Woman in Kielce
  25. 15 The Two Russian Soldiers
  26. 16 Parting with Mama
  27. 17 The Night
  28. 18 Działoszyce
  29. 19 Awakening
  30. 20 The Escape
  31. 21 Another Strange Town
  32. 22 Time to Leave Again
  33. 23 Prague
  34. 24 Hof
  35. 25 Voyage to America
  36. Part III: A New Dawn
  37. 26 America at Last
  38. 27 A Place of Our Own
  39. 28 Wedding Bells
  40. 29 West Virginia and Beyond
  41. 30 Farewell to Mama (1981)
  42. 31 A New Leaf