Be happy, be free, dance!
Subtitle: a Holocaust survivor's message to his grandchildren
By: Richard Weilheimer ; edited by Claire Gorfinkel.
Contributors: Gorfinkel, Claire.
Publisher: Intentional Productions
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Pasadena, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780964804272
Subjects: Weilheimer, Richard, -- 1931-; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Personal narratives; Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Germany -- Biography; Jewish children in the Holocaust -- France -- Biography
Genres: Personal narratives; Biography
Description: "A child survivor of the Holocaust, Richard Weilheimer describes life in pre-WW II Germany, the rise of Nazism, and his family's deportation to the misery of Camp de Gurs in Vichy-controlled France. Rescued by the Quakers, Richard established himself in the United States. Forty years later he challenges his grandchildren to live fully and resist intolerance"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Background : the rise of Nazism; title: My family and early childhood; title: Kristallnacht and the start of World War II; title: Deportation to Camp de Gurs; title: La maison des pupilles; title: Path to freedom; title: A new life; title: After high school and into another war; title: Settling down; title: In touch with the past; title: My mission, my command.