Jakub's World
A Boy's Story of Loss and Survival in the Holocaust
Publication Year: 2005
Published by: State University of New York Press
Cover
Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
Contents
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pp. vii-
Acknowledgments
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pp. ix-
The title essay, “Jakub’s World,” appeared in the Massachusetts Review 38 (4) (Winter, 1997–98). We owe a special debt of gratitude to Maj. Samuel S. Gray, Jr. (d. March 22, 2003), and his family for giving us ...
Jakub’s World [Includes Image Plates]
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pp. 1-33
Five-year-old Jakub Szabmacher sits on the floor in the center of the front row of a group of children posing for a photograph. He wears a Little Lord Fauntleroy velvet suit and lace collar and he looks very sulky. ...
Darkness
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pp. 35-47
Now standing in wooden wagons pulled by horses, now walking holding the wheels of empty wagons to steady them on hills, the remaining Jews of Bełźyce move south down familiar dirt roads through a familiar countryside past ...
In Transit
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pp. 49-52
The men from the Warsaw Ghetto and eastern Poland, who had been incarcertated for months in the desolate camps of Płaszów, Mielec, and Wieliczka, branded, beaten, broken, worked without rest, now crouch, lie, sit jostling each ...
Both Sides of the Wire
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pp. 53-62
Flossenb�rg Concentration Camp was situated on the margin of a village of the same name in the Oberpfalz mountains of Bavaria at the border with the Czech Republic. In this part of Germany, tracts of dense coniferous forest ...
Drecksack!
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pp. 63-73
Block 19, to which Jakub had been assigned, stood to the right of the gate on one side of the Appellplatz between the double-high tension fence surrounding the camp and the taller, more solidly built laundry, whose cavernous basement ...
Heat
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pp. 75-85
Winter and early spring of 1945, are busy in Flossenb�rg. By January the camp is so over-crowded that twelve hundred men, the sick, the muzulmen, are rounded up in front of Block 18 and those who can still walk are deported to ...
A Child Again [Includes Image Plates]
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pp. 87-107
A photograph taken on May 1945 by the Signal Corps of the 97th Division of the U.S. Third Army shows two horses pulling a farmwagon with coffins out of Flossenb�rg concentration camp. A large piece of white cloth with the word ...
A New World
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pp. 109-113
Despite being told by the Combined Displaced Persons Executive that “under existing policy there is no possibility for Lieutenant Colonel Leland to take action to send the boy to US”; and that “in due course, when Consular ...
Coda
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pp. 115-120
Chaim Szabmacher perished in Lublin-Majdanek. Eyewitnesses to Feix’s massacre of the Jews of Bełźyce report that the pit into which the people had been shot was covered with less than two feet of earth; that quicklime ...
Afterword: Flossenbürg? Never Heard of It
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pp. 121-154
Auschwitz, Majdanek, Dachau, Buchenwald, Theresienstadt. Mentioning these places summons up familiar images and elicits a variety of associations in both individual and communal conceptions of history. They represent the system of ...
E-ISBN-13: 9780791483497
E-ISBN-10: 0791483495
Print-ISBN-13: 9780791464076
Print-ISBN-10: 0791464075
Page Count: 164
Illustrations: 19 b/w photographs
Publication Year: 2005
