Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer once described Dr. Leon Thorne's memoir as a work of ""bitter truth"" that he compared favorably to the works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Proust. Out of print for over forty years, this lost classic of Holocaust literature now reappears in a revised, annotated edition.
Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer once described Dr. Leon Thorne's memoir as a work of ""bitter truth"" that he compared favorably to the works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Proust. Out of print for over forty years, this lost classic of Holocaust literature now reappears in a revised, annotated edition.
Epigraph Dedication Contents Introduction “Out of the Ashes” by Yitzhok Varshavski (Isaac Bashevis Singer), Forverts Newspaper, August 20, 1961 Author’s Preface Part I 1. The Cellar 2. Schodnica 3. Sambor
4. An Act of Defiance 5. The Storm 6. Janover Camp 7. Clean Rags for Dirty Ones 8. Even the Dead Are Not Immune 9. Escape to the Lemberg Ghetto 10. In the Ghetto 11. Black Thursday 12. Despair in the Jewish Quarter 13. The Poor Cannot Afford Suicide 14. The Situation of the Christians 15. In the Shadow of Death 16. The Executions 17. Last Days of the Sambor Ghetto 18. The Last Days of the Drohobycz Ghetto 19. The Camp 20. Hyrawka 21. Why There Was No Resistance 22. Naftali Backenroth 23. Beginning of the End Part II 1. August 1944 2. Can These Bones Live? 3. A Jewish Chaplain in the Polish Army 4. Breslau Revisited 5. Fishke, My Rescuer 6. A Rabbi at Work 7. No. 6 Tannenbaum Street 8. The ¿ydowica’s Story 9. My Farewell to Poland 10. Arrest in Dresden 11. Our Return to Poland 12. Breslau Again 13. The Story of Simon Becker 14. A Reunion Aboard a Train 15. A Narrow Escape 16. Our Second Exodus from Poland 17. We Go Free Afterword
Epigraph Dedication Contents Introduction “Out of the Ashes” by Yitzhok Varshavski (Isaac Bashevis Singer), Forverts Newspaper, August 20, 1961 Author’s Preface Part I 1. The Cellar 2. Schodnica 3. Sambor
4. An Act of Defiance 5. The Storm 6. Janover Camp 7. Clean Rags for Dirty Ones 8. Even the Dead Are Not Immune 9. Escape to the Lemberg Ghetto 10. In the Ghetto 11. Black Thursday 12. Despair in the Jewish Quarter 13. The Poor Cannot Afford Suicide 14. The Situation of the Christians 15. In the Shadow of Death 16. The Executions 17. Last Days of the Sambor Ghetto 18. The Last Days of the Drohobycz Ghetto 19. The Camp 20. Hyrawka 21. Why There Was No Resistance 22. Naftali Backenroth 23. Beginning of the End Part II 1. August 1944 2. Can These Bones Live? 3. A Jewish Chaplain in the Polish Army 4. Breslau Revisited 5. Fishke, My Rescuer 6. A Rabbi at Work 7. No. 6 Tannenbaum Street 8. The ¿ydowica’s Story 9. My Farewell to Poland 10. Arrest in Dresden 11. Our Return to Poland 12. Breslau Again 13. The Story of Simon Becker 14. A Reunion Aboard a Train 15. A Narrow Escape 16. Our Second Exodus from Poland 17. We Go Free Afterword
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