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- Transcending Darkness: A Girl’s Journey Out of the Holocaust
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Texas Tech University Press
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“Please, Mama, I don’t want to live like this,” pleaded twelve-year-old Estelle Glaser’s older sister as they watched the bodies of friends dangle from the gibbet in the center of Warsaw’s Apel Platz. “I cannot take the indignities and brutalities. Let’s step forward and make them kill us now.” But Estelle’s mother fiercely responded to her two daughters: No! Life is sacred. It is noble to fight to stay alive. Their mother’s indomitable will was a major factor in the trio’s survival in the face of brutal odds. But Estelle recognized other heroes in the ghetto as well, righteous individuals who stood out like beacons and kept their spirits alive. Their father was one, as were hungry teachers in dim, cold rooms who risked their lives to secretly teach imprisoned children. Estelle’s memoir, published sixty-four years after their liberation from the concentration camp, is a narrative of fear and hope and resiliency. While it is a harrowing tale of destruction and loss, it is also a story of the goodness that still exists in a dark world, of survival and renewal.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 1-8
- Illustrations
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Part I: War
- 1. Strong! United! Ready!
- pp. 1-5
- 2. Invasion
- pp. 6-9
- 3. Ghetto and Moral Resistance
- pp. 10-23
- 4. Deportation
- pp. 24-31
- 5. No Place for Children
- pp. 32-36
- 6. Subghettos
- pp. 37-45
- 8. Tata’s Last Word
- pp. 53-55
- 9. Majdanek
- pp. 56-63
- 10. Longing
- pp. 64-68
- 11. Skarźysko
- pp. 69-78
- 12. Częstochowa
- pp. 79-82
- Part II: Liberation
- 13. A Miracle
- pp. 85-90
- 14. The Old Woman in Kielce
- pp. 91-94
- 15. The Two Russian Soldiers
- pp. 95-101
- 16. Parting with Mama
- pp. 102-111
- 17. The Night
- pp. 112-118
- 18. Działoszyce
- pp. 119-126
- 19. Awakening
- pp. 127-131
- 20. The Escape
- pp. 132-135
- 21. Another Strange Town
- pp. 136-143
- 22. Time to Leave Again
- pp. 144-149
- 23. Prague
- pp. 150-152
- 25. Voyage to America
- pp. 172-178
- Part III: A New Dawn
- 26. America at Last
- pp. 181-187
- 27. A Place of Our Own
- pp. 188-194
- 28. Wedding Bells
- pp. 195-205
- 29. West Virginia and Beyond
- pp. 206-212
- 30. Farewell to Mama (1981)
- pp. 213-214
- 31. A New Leaf
- pp. 215-222
- About the Author
- p. 245
Additional Information
ISBN
9780896728004
Related ISBN(s)
9780896727670
MARC Record
OCLC
868220527
Pages
224
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No