Three Homelands
Subtitle: Memories of a Jewish Life in Poland, Israel, and America (Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust)
Contributors: Walter Reich (Foreword)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: December 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780815607342
Subjects: Biography: general; European history: Second World War; Jewish studies; Judaism; The Holocaust; Personal narratives; 20th century; Historical - General; Poland; Jewish Holocaust Personal Narratives; Literary; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; United States; USA; Historical - Holocaust; Personal Memoirs; Biography; Kolbuszowa; Persecutions; Holocaust survivors; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews
Description: "These stories recall the lost world of small-town Polish Jewry before the Holocaust and the subsequent odyssey of one boy's struggle to stay alive in the face of catastrophe. Brimming with the authenticity and humanity of personal experience, these memoirs are at once persuasive, moving, and universal in appeal.".

"Packed with rarely divulged details of daily life during the Holocaust, the book provides significant insights into human nature and the roles played by chance and purpose in staying alive. It is a route of dizzying change. First, author Norman Salsitz, an orthodox Jew, becomes a slave laborer. Then he becomes an escapee, then a partisan. In the ultimate irony, he passes as a non-Jew, working in Polish security after the war.

In America, Salsitz finds that the very traits that saw him through the war enabled him to prosper in his adopted land."--BOOK JACKET.