| Description |
1 online resource (365 pages) |
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Intro; Half Title; Dedication; Epigraph; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; The Illustrations; Acknowledgments and Attributes; Hebrew and Polish Pronunciation Guide; Introduction; Eva's Own Words; Book One There Was a World; Family Connections; The Szek Family; Bubbe Ester; Bajtel Family; Mother's Family; The Real Lubliners; My Parents; Home and Childhood; Holidays; Summers in Swidnik; Newspapers; Theater and Movies; Education; Libraries and Bookstores; Schools; Organizations and Youth Groups; Girlfriends and School Picture; Mother and Mali; Mother's Lublin Kitchen |
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Jewish Lublin on the Eve of DestructionPolish-Jewish Relations; Converts to Christianity and Judaism; Economic Conditions and Poverty; Jewish Institutions and Charities; Religious Life and Maharshal Shil; Class System; Professionals in Lublin; Businesses; Streets and Landmarks; Markets; Infrastructure; Szeroka 40, My Home; My Childhood and the Eiger Family; Reb Szlojmale; Descendants of Reb Avremale and Chana; Lublin, a Gastronomical Delight; My Uncles' Bakeries; Aromas and Tastes of Jewish Lublin; Food Storage; Life Stories; Old Lublin Legends, Traditions and Other Stories |
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Lublin Yiddish SayingsBook Two Life Changed with the Blink of an Eye; Preparation for War; German Invasion and Bombing; The Darkest Day of My life; Germans March into Lublin; Avrum Returns Home; Jews Escape to Russia; Planning to Leave for Russia; Under German Occupation; Life Comes to a Halt; Poverty and Hunger; Poles Under German Occupation; Registration of Jews; Misery; Refugees; Daily Life in the Ghetto; Polish Soldiers; Prisoners of War; The Girl from Torun; Raids and Slave Labor; Lipowa 7; Life After Lipowa; Szewczykowa's Estate; Graf's Estate; Trading in the Villages |
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Conditions in the VillagesVillage Folks; Bringing Food into the Ghetto; Turowski Family; Moving out of the Ghetto; Back in Lublin; Typhus Epidemic; The Lublin Ghetto is Closed; Escaping the Ghetto; My Life in the Village; Village People and Stories; My Brothers; Mother and Sisters Hiding; Three Jews Working in the Village; The Sztajnzalc Family; Huge Pits; Life Continues; Lublin District is Judenrein; Slave Labor at the Military Barracks; Trying to Save Ourselves; I Want to Live; Hiding; The War Drags On; Mr. X Throws Us Out; Thrown Out Again; Life Goes On in Hiding; Jankiel and Boaz |
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Loss and SurvivalBook Three The Russians Are Coming; The Russians -- Allies of the Jews; Negotiating Our Freedom; Leaving the Hiding Hole; We are Free; Return to Lublin; Life in Liberated Lublin; At the Red Cross; At the Russian Military Hospital; Life in My Hometown; Return to Szeroka Street; Meeting Chela and Zoszka; Life at the Red Cross; More Survivors in Lublin; The Buchbinder and Szlingerbaum Families; Perale and her Husband; More Survivors; Szlimak's Mill; At the Jewish Committee; Zosza (Doba) Cukierman; Dora Minc (aka Julia Celinska); Life Resumes in Lublin; Finding an Apartment |
| Summary |
""To this day I am unable to understand how I managed to survive against all odds." So relates the memoir of a young woman, Eva Szek (later Eisenkeit), who survived the Nazi onslaught against Jews in her beloved city of Lublin in Poland, an important centre of Jewish religion and culture. Eva recounts with compelling testimony her fearless fight not to fall into German hands and to save her family. Her experiences under German occupation, her struggle to survive and her subsequent liberation is an historical account of the tragedy of a Jewish community destroyed. The memoir describes Jewish Lublin life before the war, its religious institutions and charities; Polish-Jewish relations; the German bombing and invasion; the Russian escape options; the German occupation and registration of Jews; Eva's escape from the ghetto and two labour camps; her hiding in villages and farms, and complex wartime relations with Poles; her negotiated freedom with Mr. X (a Polish man who hid Jews for money, and cannot be considered a "Righteous"; life in liberated Lublin, including the first Passover celebration; meeting other survivors and trying to make a living; and Eva's postwar move to Lodz and marriage, and then to a Displaced Persons (DP) camp in Germany. As her eighty-fifth birthday approached, Eva asked her daughter Esther to take down her life story "so the whole world will know what the Germans did." A Lublin Survivor: Life is Like a Dream not only provides an extraordinarily complete and descriptive picture of life in pre-war and liberated Lublin but a first-hand account of the obliteration of its Jewish community and one individual's indomitable determination to survive against all odds"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Eisenkeit, Eva, 1919-
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Jewish women -- Poland -- Lublin -- Biography
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Lublin -- Personal narratives
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Jewish women
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Lublin (Poland) -- Biography
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Poland -- Lublin
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Personal narratives
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Minars, Esther, editor
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| ISBN |
1782845712 |
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9781782845713 |
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9781782845737 |
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1782845739 |
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