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Book SynopsisThis collection of true stories 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.
Trade ReviewFrom time to time one comes across a book of true tales that not only has the power to be painfully moving, but also terribly informing about what it was like to survive the Holocaust. Bernard Gotfryd, in his true tales, has given us such a book. Dimensions Thirty autobiographical stories whose banal details and well-placed silences haunt long after the book is finished. -- Joan Baum The Independent Written with integrity and honesty, Anton helps us to recognize human strength and precariousness, and the complexity of human existence. The book rouses our responsibility and makes us face people and history through the specific voices Gotfryd lets us hear, and the specific faces and places he lets us see. -- Yasuhiro Tae Bulletin of the Center for Holocaust Studies [A] fine collection of 30 true stories, some nostalgic, others heartbreaking, all of them moving. Jewish Book World
Table of ContentsForeword
Preface
Chapter 1. Theft of a Table
Chapter 2. The Circus Comes to Town
Chapter 3. The Stutterer
Chapter 4. The Music Teacher
Chapter 5. The Wedding Picture
Chapter 6. The Violin
Chapter 6. My Debut
Chapter 7. The Fountain Pen
Chapter 8. Mr. G.
Chapter 9. Masha
Chapter 10. A Chicken for the Holidays
Chapter 11. Alexandra
Chapter 12. Kurt
Chapter 13. Helmut Reiner
Chapter 14. The Last Morning
Chapter 15. Anton the Dove Fancier
Chapter 16. On Guilt
Chapter 17. Three Eggs
Chapter 18. The Execution
Chapter 19. My Brother's Friend
Chapter 20. Hans Bürger, #15252
Chapter 21. The Last Camp
Chapter 22. An Encounter in Linz
Chapter 23. Reunions
Chapter 24. Inge
Chapter 25. America at Last
Chapter 26. Old Friends
Chapter 27. Walking in the Footsteps of My Childhood
Chapter 28. On a Rainy Night
Chapter 29. On Memory
