Anschel's Story: Determined to Survive

by Renate Frydman

Overview

This book is a heart-stopping journey told in first person, which describes unusual courage and uncanny luck. It is the true story of a young teenager who lost everyone and everything during the Holocaust. He fought to live on in spite of ghettos, fatal line-ups, enslavement in work camps and years of survival as a partisan in Polish forests.

From the cover: "His mother had to make a quick decision that no parent would ever want to make. Which of her children and the best chance to survive this calamity? Her son. Anschel, was the oldest and strongest. The two girls had to stay with her no matter what was coming."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945091643
Publisher:	Braughler Books, LLC
Publication date:	12/05/2017
Pages:	110
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.29(d)

About the Author

Renate Frydman, Ph.D, has been writing since the age of eight, and worked as a contributing writer for the Dayton Daily News, a Cox newspaper, for thirty years. She has been involved with Holocaust education and remembrance since the 1960's till the present. Renate is curator of and docent for the Holocaust Exhibit, Prejudice & Memory at the Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton which has over a million visitors a year. Renate is producer and interviewer for the video series, Faces of the Holocaust, which was produced at Wright State University in 1985 and 1995. The series is used at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and throughout the world. She is a member of the Ohio Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education since its inception in 1986. Renate founded the Holocaust Education Committee and Dayton Holocaust Resource Center and remains active with both. She emphasizes the harm that comes with racism and bullying in all her speeches to students. This book, "Anschel's Story: Determined to Live" is her tribute to the man she was married to for fifty-one years.