Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust, Second Edition
Language: English
Pages: 536
ISBN: 0300205996
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The second paperback edition includes a new preface by Alexandra Zapruder examining the book’s history and impact. Simultaneously, a multimedia edition incorporates a wealth of new content in a variety of media, including photographs of the writers and their families, images of the original diaries, artwork made by the writers, historical documents, glossary terms, maps, survivor testimony (some available for the first time), and video of the author teaching key passages. In addition, an in-depth, interdisciplinary curriculum in history, literature, and writing developed by the author and a team of teachers, working in cooperation with the educational organization Facing History and Ourselves, is now available to support use of the book in middle- and high-school classrooms.
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Murdered, some by starvation, some by deportations (modern civilian death). We have been crippled and degraded physically, emotionally, and reduced to an existence of the most horrible misery and privation, unprecedented in history. We are slaves, devoid of free will, who are happy when trodden upon and beg only that they not be trodden to death. We are, without exaggeration, the most miserable creatures ever under the sun—and all that is still not enough for the “mighty man.” Still we are being.
Building, and mountains in the background on the Swiss side. 22. Peter recalls that he used this term to show anyone who might look through the diary that he was not Jewish, as there were rumors that Jews would be sent from Switzerland back to France. 4. Moshe Flinker 1. Despite considerable effort, attempts to reach the surviving Flinker family members were unsuccessful. Therefore, biographical information about Moshe Flinker and his family comes primarily from Shaul Esh and Geoffrey Wigoder,.
You a lot. Monday, September 14, 1942 Willie came to see me at noon. He told me he had the key. He brought me a package […]. He received 300 francs from Dr. Koen and sold the animals. All told he brought me 1,003.80 francs. He is handling everything and I trust him. He was pale and haggard. The directress showed him your letter, which she had just received, forwarded by the Quakers. I hope, despite everything, that you will leave with me. Perhaps you’ll still be freed? She also said there was.
Stop shouting and go home. Tandl is falling down drunk. Slávek has had a few as well. Only Vladya is sober. Slávek wants Dad to certify that he, Slávek, will be fully reimbursed after the war. He doesn’t seem to know what he wants. […] We finally manage to calm Dad down and we slowly walk home. […] Slávek said that as long as Dad doesn’t hand over some money we are not getting anything to eat. There is a lot that could be said on that theme. We go inside the hut at 3 A.M. I make mocca. We go to.
Words, and finally says that he is visiting the Oheras and that he is from Telc. The Vlasovite commander does not believe him, though, and simply says: “You’re coming with me.” Otto rises to his feet resolutely and goes, although his face is as white as paper. The rest of us feel like knives are being driven into our hearts. They demand identification from Papa, too, but he says that he has special dispensation and besides is sixty-one already, so finally they leave him alone. They don’t even.