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The stories in Out of Chaos forms a profound testament to lost and found lives that are translated into compelling reading. The collection illuminates brief or elongated moments, fragments of memory and experience, what the great Holocaust writer Ida Fink called “a scrap of time.”  In all, the anthology expresses survivors’ memories and reactions to a wide range of experiences as they survived in so many European settings, from Holland, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Greece, Yugoslavia, Poland, and France.

The writers recall being on the run between different countries, escaping over mountains, hiding and even sometimes forgetting their Jewish identities in convents and rescuers’ homes and hovels, basements and attics. Some were left on their own; others found themselves embroiled in rescuer family conflicts.  Some writers chose to write story clusters, each one capturing a moment or incident and often disconnected by memory or temporal and spatial divides. 
 

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  1. Cover
  2. p. 1
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
  2. pp. 2-7
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  1. Contents
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  1. List of Illustrations
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Introduction
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  1. Child Survivors
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  1. Part 1. In the Beginning
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  1. Earliest Memories: A Walk in the Park
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  1. The Megillah: 1937
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  1. My Grandfather’s Watch
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  1. The School Lessons
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  1. Part 2. On the Run
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  1. The Marketplace
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  1. Shema Yisrael
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  1. A Holocaust Composite
  2. pp. 28-36
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  1. My Voyage on the SS St. Louis and After
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  1. Zamboni’s List
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  1. The Rocky Shores of Marseille: 1942
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  1. The Train Station in Turin: March 1944
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  1. The Boot
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  1. Part 3. Hidden with Parents: Belgium
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  1. Reminiscences of Being Hidden
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  1. Boom 1943, and Blood
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  1. Part 4. Hidden with Rescuers
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  1. Coal
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  1. The Declaration
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  1. Mother and Daughter—Parallel Thoughts
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  1. Who Am I This Time?
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  1. To Annette, the Center Point
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  1. A Child Remembers
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  1. Born-Again Jew
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  1. Taste of Liberation
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  1. Happiness and Sadness
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  1. The Borrowed Saint
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  1. Armand Can Do Anything
  2. pp. 114-118
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  1. Long Live Liberated Alsace, a Child’s Vindication
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  1. The Warsaw Ghetto: The Last Night with My Parents
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  1. The Christmas Gift
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  1. Part 5. Hiding in Plain Sight
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  1. From Radomsko to Chicago
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  1. Pretending to Be a Pole
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  1. Part 6. In Concentration Camps
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  1. The First Night
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  1. A Child’s Confusion
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  1. The Transit Camp
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  1. Westerbork, 1943: Monday Night in the Big Barracks
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  1. “One Out of One Hundred ”
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  1. Part 7. Aftermath
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  1. Fall 1944 Rixensart
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  1. Charcoal
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  1. Fading Memories
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  1. The Haul in the Wall
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  1. Disillusionment
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  1. Bond with Rain
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  1. A Passion to Tell
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  1. A Dog
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  1. Untitled Poem
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  1. Part 8. Lost and Found
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  1. The Story of Adam Paluch
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  1. Secrets
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  1. An Imagined Conversation, or Perhaps
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  1. Afterword
  2. pp. 247-252
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  1. Historical and Personal Timeline of the Holocaust
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  1. Glossary
  2. pp. 267-274
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  1. Extermination and Concentration Camps
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  1. Hidden Children /Child Survivors Chicago Mission Statement
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  1. Contributors
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