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- English
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Reconciliation with Evil
About this book
From 1940, Leon Weintraub (born 1926) was forced by the Nazis to live with his family in the Litzmannstadt ghetto and perform forced labour. The skills he learnt there probably saved him from death: when the ghetto was dissolved in 1944, the prisoners were deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and killed. Weintraub, however, managed to pass himself off as a labour prisoner and thus escape being murdered. In the turmoil of the final months of the war, he survived several of the Nazis' brutal deportation operations until he finally managed to escape on one of the transports. Most of his family did not survive the Holocaust. In conversations with journalist Magda Jaros, Leon Weintraub talks about his childhood in ?ód? and his life after the war: his medical studies in Göttingen, his career in Poland and his emigration to Sweden due to the anti-Semitic March riots in 1968. It is the story of reconciliation after unspeakable suffering—but also a warning.»Despite the horrors that Leon Weintraub experienced in his life, he constantly believes that dialogue and mutual respect are the way to improve the world. And these are not just words, but are followed by actions. He constantly repeats to all close and familiar people that everyone should approach everyone with respect, because religion, nationality or skin color do not count, but the human-human relationship is the most important. The determination with which he wants to convey his message to Poles, Germans and Jews who have been united and divided by history, arouses my great admiration.«Joanna Podolska, director of the Dialogue Center Marek Edelman in ?ód?
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Table of contents
- Title
- Impressum
- Table of Content
- Foreword by Sascha Feuchert
- From the authors
- Introduction
- Chapter I: Czulentowa Street and other addresses
- Chapter II: City of Shadow People
- Chapter III: Become invisible
- Chapter IV: Single-use item
- Chapter V: Learning to walk
- Chapter VI: Revolutionary time
- Chapter VII: The Warsaw dream
- Chapter VIII: Small surgeon, small cut
- Chapter IX: Bitterness
- Chapter X: A world beyond the sea
- Chapter XI: Personal matters
- Chapter XII: Distinguishing marks: music and film
- Chapter XIII: A question of world view
- Chapter XIV: The story of a photo
- Chapter XV: Eternal memory
- Chapter XVI: Promised land
- Chapter XVII: Reconciliation with evil
- Image Section
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