Before All Memory Is Lost: Women's Voices from the Holocaust

by Myrna Goldenberg (Editor), Myrna Goldberg (Editor)

Overview

In this first Azrieli Foundation anthology, twenty-five women reflect on their experiences of survival – from the heart-stopping fears of hiding to the extreme risks of “passing” as non-Jews, and from the terrors of the Nazi camps to the treacheries of the Soviet Union. This powerful collection, woven together by the common thread of resistance, features a wide variety of narrative styles, including prose, poetry and diary excerpts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781988065236
Publisher:	Azrieli Foundation
Publication date:	01/17/2017
Series:	The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	465
Sales rank:	427,400
File size:	12 MB
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Age Range:	14 Years

About the Author

Myrna Goldenberg is the co-editor of Different Horrors, Same Hell:Gender and the Holocaust (2013) and Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust (2003), as well as a number of other publications. A professor emerita of Montgomery College, Maryland, Goldenberg’s research focuses on gender and the Holocaust and on teaching the Holocaust in the university and college classroom.

Table of Contents

Series Preface xi

About the Footnotes and Glossary xiii

Introduction Myrna Goldenberg xv

Map xxi

"Let Their Memory Live Forever" Ifa Demon xxiii

Hiding

Foreword Myrna Goldenberg 3

Each Day Could Be Our Last: Irena's Wartime Diary Irena Peritz 9

A Beacon of Light Eva Kuper 43

Hidden by Hope Magda Sebestian 73

In Memoriam Bianka Kraszewski 99

Passing

Foreword Myrna Goldenberg 131

The Depth of Decency Helen Mahut 135

Mewa (Seagull) Dyna Perelmuter 173

Life Lines Barbara Kuper 193

The Forces of Endurance Irene Zoberman 215

Camps

Foreword Myrna Goldenberg 265

"Auschwitz" Fela Yoskovitz-Ross 275

To Live in Freedom: Excerpts from Catherine Matyas's Diary Catherine Matyas 281

Sometimes I Can Dream Again Suzanne (Katz) Reich 293

If the World Had Only Acted Sooner Rebekah (Reili) Schmerler-Katz 323

With Great Pride Fela Zylberstajn Grachnik 353

Living Every Minute Babey Widutschinsky Trepman 373

To My Daughters Ida Dimant 397

Soviet Union

Foreword Myrna Goldenberg 419

My Life in the Gulag Mina Wolkowicz 425

In the Inferno: the Dead Loop Concentration Camp Svetlana Kogan-Rabinovich 455

I Have Survived It All Gitlia Popovsky 483

A Letter from the Ukraine Koine Schachter Rogel 501

Glossary 541

Author Biographies 559

Index 571