Out of Chaos: Hidden Children Remember the Holocaust

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction Phyllis Lassner xxi Child Survivors Marguerite Lederman Mishkin 3 PART 1. In the Beginning Earliest Memories: A Walk in the Park Leonie Taffel Bergman 9 The Megillah: 1937 Chaya Horowitz Roth 12 My Grandfather’s Watch Judith Levy Straus 14 The School Lessons Leonie Taffel Bergman 16 PART 2. On the Run The Marketplace Aaron Elster 21 Shema Yisrael Edith Singer Turner 23 A Holocaust Composite Walter Reed 28 My Voyage on the SS St. Louis and After Leah Molton-Motulsky Kadden 37 Zamboni’s List Isaac M. Daniel 45 The Rocky Shores of Marseille: 1942 Chaya Horowitz Roth 52 The Train Station in Turin: March 1944 Chaya Horowitz Roth 53 The Boot Gitta Horowitz Fajerstein 54 PART 3. Hidden with Parents Belgium Reminiscences of Being Hidden Olga Kirshenbaum Weiss 59 Boom 1943 Henry Stark 67 Blood Henry Stark 68 PART 4. Hidden with Rescuers Belgium Coal Henry Stark 71 The Declaration Leonie Taffel Bergman 72 Mother and Daughter—Parallel Thoughts Marguerite Lederman Mishkin 78 Who Am I This Time? Marguerite Lederman Mishkin 81 To Annette, the Center Point Marguerite Lederman Mishkin 89 A Child Remembers Lillian Schreiber Zoloto 92 France Born-Again Jew Adele Laznowski Zaveduk 101 Taste of Liberation Adele Laznowski Zaveduk 107 Happiness and Sadness Adele Laznowski Zaveduk 109 The Borrowed Saint Nicole Dreyfus Terry 110 Armand Can Do Anything Nicole Dreyfus Terry 114 Long Live Liberated Alsace, a Child’s Vindication Nicole Dreyfus Terry 119 Poland The Warsaw Ghetto: The Last Night with My Parents Irma Morgenstern Grundland 123 The Christmas Gift Ida Paluch Kersz 128 PART 5. Hiding in Plain Sight From Radomsko to Chicago Miriam Studniberg Webster 143 Pretending to Be a Pole Amos Turner 157 PART 6. In Concentration Camps The First Night Judith Levy Straus 169 A Child’s Confusion Judith Levy Straus 170 The Transit Camp Judith Levy Straus 171 Westerbork, 1943: Monday Night in the Big Barracks Judith Levy Straus 172 “One Out of One Hundred” Kurt Gutfreund 176 PART 7. Aftermath Fall 1944 Rixensart Henry Stark 189 Charcoal Aaron Elster 190 Fading Memories Aaron Elster 194 The Haul in the Wall Henry Stark 196 Disillusionment Judith Levy Straus 200 Bond with Rain Ava Hegedis Kadishson Schieber 202 A Passion to Tell Chaya Horowitz Roth 209 A Dog Ahlyce Goldman Kaplan 220 Untitled Poem Ava Hegedis Kadishson Schieber 222 PART 8. Lost and Found The Story of Adam Paluch Adam Paluch 225 Secrets Sheila Taub Birger Gerber 233 An Imagined Conversation, or Perhaps Leonie Taffel Bergman and Marguerite Lederman Mishkin 240 Afterword Elaine Saphier Fox 247 Historical and Personal Timeline of the Holocaust 253 Glossary 267 Extermination and Concentration Camps 275 Hidden Children/Child Survivors Chicago Mission Statement 283 Contributors 285 ...