Jagendorf's foundry
Subtitle: memoir of the Romanian Holocaust, 1941-1944
By: Siegfried Jagendorf ; introduction and commentaries by Aron Hirt-Manheimer.
Contributors: Hirt-Manheimer, Aron, 1948-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Jagendorf, Siegfried, 1885-1970.; Jews -- Persecutions -- Romania.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Romania -- Personal narratives.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Ukraine -- Transnistria (Territory under German and Romanian occupation, 1941-1944); Romania -- Ethnic relations.; Transnistria (Ukraine : Territory under German and Romanian occupation, 1941-1944) -- Ethnic relations.
Description: "Let us take advantage of this historic moment and cleanse the soil of Romania ..." These words began the Romanian Holocaust in 1941. Deported Jews were expected to perish. So it might have been for the thousands sent to the German-occupied Soviet territory of Moghilev, were it not for the intervention of a Jewish engineer, 56-year-old Siegfried Jagendorf, who was among the deportees. This book tells the incredible story, left untold for fifty years, of a sabotaged and abandoned ironworks that became the instrument of salvation for 15,000 Romanian Jews. - Jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-202) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part one : Fall, 1941.; title: An unknown destination; title: The prefect; title: The Turnatoria; title: Ordinance no. 23; title: The Jewish Committee; title: Commentary for part one; title: Part two : Winter, 1941-1942.; title: Forced labor; title: The beating; title: A righteous Romanian; title: Informers; title: Typhus; title: "Laundering" Lei; title: Jewish police; title: Commentary for part two; title: Part three : Spring-Summer, 1942; title: Garden or graveyard?; title: A new prefect; title: Sparing the scoundrels; title: Cheating the executioner; title: Training the youth; title: The crucifix; title: Commentary for part three; title: Part four : Fall 1942.; title: A grand scheme; title: Partisans and traitors; title: The cigarette lighter; title: The stolen belt; title: Commentary for part four; title: Part five : Winter, 1942-1943.; title: Saving the orphans; title: The Saraga Commission; title: "Roar of the Turnatoria"; title: Good Germans; title: Commentary for part five; title: Part six : Spring-Summer, 1943.; title: Changing of the guard; title: The bribe; title: Loghin the terrible; title: Vapniarca; title: Filderman in Moghilev; title: Beyond the bug; title: Odessa; title: Commentary for part six; title: Part seven : 1944-1946.; title: Farewell Moghilev; title: Bukovina, Botosani, Bucharest; title: The people's court; title: To America; title: Commentary for part seven