600 Days in Hiding
Title | 600 Days in Hiding PDF eBook |
Author | Andreas Algava |
Publisher | |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2018-01-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781983462542 |
A gripping tale of survival in Nazi-occupied Greece... In April 1941 the Nazis invaded Thessaloniki, Greece. Within two years, the city's Jews were shipped by cattle cars to the Auschwitz death camp. Approximately 56,000 Jews lived in Thessaloniki before the occupation and only 1,800 survivors eventually returned after the war ended. There were just three Jewish families that survived because of the courage and kindness of Greek citizens who risked their lives by hiding them in their homes. Among the survivors were Andrew "Andreas" Algava, who was three years old at the time, and his family. They were five of the 56,000 Jews who lived in Thessaloniki.Algava, who moved to the United States at the age of seven, has written a gripping account of his experience as a survivor titled 600 Days in Hiding. His family's memoir stands beside such classics of Holocaust literature as The Diary of Anne Frank, Elie Wiesel's Night, Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz, and Nechama Tec's Defiance.
Do Not Forget Me
Title | Do Not Forget Me PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Saltiel |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2021-06-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1805394118 |
Following the Axis invasion of Greece, the Nazis began persecuting the country’s Jews much as they had across the rest of occupied Europe, beginning with small indignities and culminating in mass imprisonment and deportations. Among the many Jews confined to the Thessaloniki ghetto during this period were Sarina Saltiel, Mathilde Barouh, and Neama Cazes—three women bound for Auschwitz who spent the weeks before their deportation writing to their sons. Do Not Forget Me brings together these remarkable pieces of correspondence, shocking accounts of life in the ghetto with an emotional intensity rare even by the standards of Holocaust testimony.
Hiding in the Spotlight
Title | Hiding in the Spotlight PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Dawson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2009-06-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Summoning all the colors of a Chopin prelude, Dawson has painted a vivid picture of his mother (Mona Golabeck) as a young girl whose musical genius enables her to survive the Holocaust.
The Holocaust in Thessaloniki
Title | The Holocaust in Thessaloniki PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Saltiel |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2020-03-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0429514158 |
The book narrates the last days of the once prominent Jewish community of Thessaloniki, the overwhelming majority of which was transported to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in 1943. Focusing on the Holocaust of the Jews of Thessaloniki, this book maps the reactions of the authorities, the Church and the civil society as events unfolded. In so doing, it seeks to answer the questions, did the Christian society of their hometown stand up to their defense and did they try to undermine or object to the Nazi orders? Utilizing new sources and interpretation schemes, this book will be a great contribution to the local efforts underway, seeking to reconcile Thessaloniki with its Jewish past and honour the victims of the Holocaust. The first study to examine why 95 percent of the Jews of Thessaloniki perished—one of the highest percentages in Europe—this book will appeal to students and scholars of the Holocaust, European History and Jewish Studies. Recipient of the 2021 Vashem Yad International Book Prize for Holocaust Research. "In view of the important contribution that this study makes to the understanding of the Holocaust in Thessaloniki in particular and, more broadly, in Greece, [...] the International Committee for the Yad Vashem Book Prize decided to award the 2021 prize to Dr. Leon Saltiel."
796 Days
Title | 796 Days PDF eBook |
Author | Leo S. Ullman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2015-02 |
Genre | Hidden children (Holocaust) |
ISBN | 9781941501122 |
A mesmerizing first-person story of a young Jewish boy pushed into hiding over a period of nearly 2 1/2 years during WWII with total strangers who did not know who he was, while his parents hid in an attic elsewhere, not knowing where their son was or whether he was alive. This all in the heart of Amsterdam during the brutal occupation by the Nazis. Their family, long established, leading honest, law-abiding, normal and comfortable lives were suddenly forced to (in their own words) "disappear," to "become illegal," and to "live like rats" to avoid capture and deportation to killing camps. Yet they survived, facing constant fear of death, house-to-house searches, betrayal, disease and hunger, until liberated by the Allies. They then left their home, their country and their friends to start anew, in the U.S., seeking freedom from oppression. They quickly grew roots, becoming active and involved in their chosen community, and were able to succeed with zeal and good fortune. This chronicle includes not only Leo Ullman's own personal story, but stories of other family members and their often miraculous survival. The book contains numerous unique photos, copies of documents and correspondence in support of the stories, as well as valuable historical and factual context of those terrible times.--Back cover.
Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust
Title | Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust PDF eBook |
Author | Loic Dauvillier |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 2014-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1596438738 |
A deeply moving story about a little girl hiding from the Nazis in World War II France.
The Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume One
Title | The Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume One PDF eBook |
Author | Aristotle |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 1265 |
Release | 2014-09-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1400835844 |
Volume one of the acclaimed Oxford translation of Aristotle’s works—now fully revised and expanded Originally published in twelve volumes between 1912 and 1954, the Oxford translation of Aristotle is universally recognized as the standard English version of the great philosopher’s works. This revised edition has been fully updated in the light of modern scholarship while remaining faithful to the substance and vibrancy of the original translation. Now available in two volumes with three new translations and an enlarged selection of Fragments, The Complete Works of Aristotle makes the surviving writings of Aristotle readily accessible to a new generation of English-speaking readers.