A world erased
Subtitle: a grandson's search for his family's Holocaust secrets
By: Noah Lederman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781442267435
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Grandparent and child; Biography
Description: This moving memoir by the grandson of Holocaust survivors transports readers from Noah's grandmother's home in Brooklyn to World War II Poland. Together, they explore the memories-of Auschwitz, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and the displaced persons camps-that his family had long buried. Their shared journey illuminates the power of never forgetting.
Table of contents: title: The Holocaust through nightmares; title: Super Poppy and the meshugge grandma; title: The hospital; title: Keys to the Holocaust vault; title: Adrift; title: Death in the Czech Republic; title: The e-mail; title: Otwock; title: From night to dawn; title: Peering into the vault; title: The tapes; title: Panama; title: Escape from Warsaw; title: Revision; title: A box of photos; title: The four questions; title: Israel; title: Research at Yad Vashem; title: Nearly unraveled; title: The boy at the gates of Warsaw; title: Lightning lad; title: Escape from Treblinka; title: The liquidation; title: Grandma's determination; title: Get well soon; title: The bronze  arm; title: Bergen-Belsen; title: Better and you better; title: Umschlagplatz; title: The mystery camp; title: A return to the camps; title: Majdanek; title: Birkenau; title: Auschwitz; title: The Buna; title: Liberation; title: In search of new beginnings.