Title: Echoes from the Holocaust : a memoir /
Authors: Kimmelman, Mira Ryczke, 1923-
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Kimmelman, Mira Ryczke,; Jews Poland Gdańsk Biography.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland Personal narratives; Holocaust survivors United States Biography
Abstract: The daughter of a Jewish seed exporter, the author was born Mira Ryczke in 1923 in a suburb of the Baltic seaport of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland). Her childhood was happy, and she learned to cherish her faith and heritage. Through the 1930s, Mira's family remained in the Danzig area despite a changing political climate that was compelling many friends and neighbors to leave. With the Polish capitulation to Germany in the autumn of 1939, however, Mira and her family were.
Contents: Life in Danzig -- Warsaw -- Next stop : Tomaszow Mazowiecki -- Tomaszow Ghetto -- Bloody April 1942 -- The watch -- Purim 1943 -- Life and death at Blizyn-Majdanek -- Pinio -- Choosing life -- Place called Auschwitz -- Promise kept -- Auschwitz-Hindenburg -- Evacuation and death march -- Bergen- Belsen -- Liberation -- Memories of my brother -- Eva -- New life-new love -- Coming to the United States -- Closing the circle.