May God Avenge Their Blood
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May God Avenge Their Blood

A Holocaust Memoir Triptych

  1. 273 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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May God Avenge Their Blood

A Holocaust Memoir Triptych

About this book

May God Avenge Their Blood: a Holocaust Memoir Triptych presents three memoirs by the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks (1912–1974). In "Those Who Didn't Survive," Bryks portrays inter-war life in his shtetl Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland with great flair and rich anthropological detail, rendering a haunting collective portrait of an annihilated community. "The Fugitives" vividly charts the confusion and terror of the early days of World War II in the industrial city of Lódz and elsewhere. In the final memoir, "From Agony to Life," Bryks tells of his imprisonment in Auschwitz and other camps. Taken together, the triptych takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey from Hasidic life before the Holocaust to the chaos of the early days of war and then to the horrors of Nazi captivity. This translation by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub brings the extraordinary memoirs of an important Yiddish writer to English-language readers for the first time.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Part I. THOSE WHO DIDN’T SURVIVE
  3. A Letter in Yiddish from Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon
  4. Part II. THE FUGITIVES
  5. My Sacred Obligation
  6. A Few Observations
  7. Ch01. This Is How It All Began
  8. Ch02. Fugitives
  9. Ch03. A Gas Nightmare
  10. Ch04. I Take Flight
  11. Ch05. Warsaw Bound
  12. Ch06. My Return to ƁódĆș
  13. Ch07. In German Captivity
  14. Ch08. Theft, Torment, Murders
  15. Ch09. We’re Transferred to Germany
  16. Ch10. We’re Taken from the Camp—But Where?
  17. Ch11. In a Camp Near KrakĂłw
  18. Ch12. In Camp Kobiezshin
  19. Ch13. Freedom Gained
  20. Ch14. In SkarĆŒysko-Kamienna—New Troubles
  21. Ch15. In Koluszki
  22. Ch16. We Arrive in ƁódĆș
  23. Ch17. At Home with Mordecai Gebirtig
  24. Ch18. Visit to Josef Wulf
  25. Part III. FROM AGONY TO LIFE
  26. Ch01. Deportation to Auschwitz
  27. Ch02. Transport to Germany
  28. Ch03. In Other Concentration Camps
  29. Ch04. The Wild Beast
  30. Ch05. The First Weeks
  31. Ch06. Laundry Day
  32. Ch07. A Gallows
  33. Ch08. New Germans, New Troubles
  34. Ch09. Episodes and Characters
  35. Ch10. Return to Camp Braunschweig
  36. Ch11. In Camp Wattenstadt
  37. Ch12. From “Switzerland” to a Death Camp
  38. Ch13. We’re Liberated
  39. Papa, As I Remember Him
  40. Rachmil Bryks
  41. Dramatis Personae
  42. Glossary
  43. Translator’s Notes
  44. Translator’s Acknowledgments
  45. About the Author
  46. About the Translator
  47. About the Author’s Daughter