Gabriel Laufer

A Survivor's Duty

Surviving the Holocaust and Fighting for Israel--A Story of Father and Son

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gabriel Laufer shares the gripping stories of his father¿s survival in the Holocaust and his service in four Israeli wars, leading the reader through his family's personal history and its place in some of the momentous events of the 20th century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9781618117823
• ISBN-10: 1618117823
• Artikelnr.: 51773172

Autorenporträt

Gaby Laufer, Hungarian born and Israeli native, is a retired University of Virginia Engineering professor. Deploying his scientific research skills to discover unknown details of his father¿s Holocaust survival and juxtaposing them with accounts of his own participation in Israeli wars, he created a unique parallel father-and-son narrative.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Foreword
June 1942: Imprisoned in the toloncház
July 1942: Budapest
August 1942: Leaving Gyula
August 1942: Püspökladány, Hungary
September 1942: Gomel, Ukraine
September-October 1942: When Man Becomes a Horse
October-December 1942: Stary Oskol
May 1967: Dark Clouds over Israel
May-June 1967: The Six-Day War
Summer 1967: Messianic Days (or so we thought)
January 1943: Near Stalingrad
1968-1970: The War of Attrition
October 1973: The Yom Kippur War
November 1944-May 1945: Dachau and Mühldorf, Germany
May 1945: Liberation
July 1945: Home at Last
1945-1949: Budapest
July-August 1949: Escape from Hungary
June 1982: A War of Deception
Bibliography