Life death memories
By: Thomas T. Hecht.
Edition: [1st ed.].
Publisher: Leopolis Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Charlottesville, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Hecht, Thomas T., 1929-; Jews -- Ukraine -- Busʹk -- Biography.; Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Ukraine -- Busʹk -- Biography.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Ukraine -- Busʹk -- Personal narratives.; Busʹk (Ukraine) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.; Personal narratives.
Description: This is the story of a young boy who came of age before World War II in a small Polish-Jewish-Ukrainian town. Nearly his entire family met their end by gas or by bullet. He survived only by the barest of luck. Among the most moving pages in the book are those the author devotes to the Ukrainian and Polish men and women who found the courage, in the face of savage anti-Semitism raging about them, to come to the aid of the Jewish victims, thus risking death both at the hands of their neighbors and the German masters alike.