To Wear the Dust of War
Subtitle: From Bialystok to Shanghai to the Promised Land, an Oral History (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)
Contributors: Leslie J.H. Kelley (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 21, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781403965769
Subjects: Biblical archaeology; Biography: general; European history: from c 1900 -; Oral history; The Holocaust; Refugees, Jewish; Jewish - General; History; Shanghai; Eastern Europe - General; Judaism - History; History - General History; Iwry, Samuel; History: World; Eastern Europe; Europe; Historical - Holocaust; China; Jews; Personal narratives; Europe - General; Poland; Biography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
First sentence: Samuel Iwry (pronounced "EE-vree") was born into the eastern region of Poland, which since 1797 had been occupied by the Russian Empire.