Thorne Leon Thorne

It Will Yet Be Heard (eBook, ePUB)

A Polish Rabbi''s Witness of the Shoah and Survival
Redaktion: Daniel Magilow, Magilow; Emanuel Thorne, Thorne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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edition, including both Thorne s original 1961 memoir Out of the Ashes: The Story of a Survivor and his previously unpublished accounts of his arduous postwar experiences in Germany and Poland. Rabbi Thorne composed his memoir under extraordinary conditions, confined to a small underground bunker below a Polish peasant s pigsty. But, It Will Yet Be Heard is remarkable not only for the story of its composition, but also for its moral clarity and complexity. A deeply religious man, Rabbi Thorne bore witness to forced labor camps, human degradation, and the murders of entire communities. And once he emerged from hiding, he grappled not only with survivor s guilt, but also with the lingering antisemitism and anti-Jewish violence in Poland even after the war ended. Harrowing, moving, and deeply insightful, Rabbi Thorne s firsthand account offers a rediscovered perspective on the twentieth century s greatest tragedy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978801660
• Artikelnr.: 72430285

Autorenporträt

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
 
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
 
About the Contributors
 
Acknowledgements