Anton the Dove Fancier and Other Tales of the Holocaust
Edition: expanded edition edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: April 17, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780801863103
Subjects: The Holocaust; True Stories; Personal narratives; Jewish - General; Jewish Holocaust Personal Narratives; Radom (Radom); History; History - General History; Persecutions; History: World; Europe; Holocaust; Judaism - General; Short Stories (single author); History / Jewish; Poland; Gotfryd, Bernard; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews
First sentence: I must have been seven, going on eight.
Description: "This collection of true stories - including nine stories new to this expanded edition - illuminates the experiences of a young Polish boy before World War II, through the gathering storm of Nazism, into the death camps, to poignant reunions many years later.

Here we watch young Bernard break curfew to secure a rare chicken for the High Holidays - only to see it given to the Christian janitor because it is not kosher; we meet Alexandra, a Polish resistance fighter who enlists the teenaged Bernard in the cause but who perishes while he survives; and we share Bernard's fear as he spends one very uncomfortable night - hours after his liberation - in the seemingly, sympathetic home of the parents of a young SS officer."--BOOK JACKET.