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Book SynopsisThe memories of Manny Drukier are indelibly inscribed on his mind, and in Carved in Stone he recounts them with honesty and precision.
Trade Review"Drukier never presents himself as a hero. He has no time for introspection during the war; the daily search for food is what occupies his thoughts, and the ingenuity he displays in getting an extra portion … is what carries much of the narrative forward. His final moments with his mother and sister, and his father (with whom he was in touch until the elder Drukier’s death from starvation) are numbingly, achingly beautiful. Drukier does not write sentimentally about these things – he simply recounts them, and the effect is almost unbearable." -- Jason Sherman * Quill and Quire *
"Seldom have I read a manuscript that has moved me like Manny Drukier’s Carved in Stone: Holocaust Years - A Boy’s Tale." -- John Copley * Edmonton Jewish News *
"This account by a successful publisher and businessman should be widely read. It is by a survivor of rare sensitivity who assures us as did Walt Whitman in a different context, "I know, I suffered, I was there."" -- Bernard Baskin * Canadian Jewish News *
"He has two stories to tell and does so remarkably well in this book of memoirs. Masterfully, he moves the narrative from the past to the present and back again, incorporating the sad and horrific recollections of the war years with those of his (and his wife Freda’s) travels through Poland in the fall of 1991." -- Allan Levine * Winnipeg Free Press *
‘Drukier is sustained by the memory of sustenance, and his ability to feel it so intensely is charming. In fact, the intelligent and restrained way in which he shares his tale gives us a portrait of the survivor as a truly admirable person. He is frank about his suffering without being maudlin, intelligent in his analysis of the social forces at play in Europe, generous with the details that brings his world to life. The superior abilities that enabled him to survive are now put to the task of testimony, and serve him and the reader well.’ -- Robin Roger * Books in Canada *
Table of ContentsFOREWORD by Henry Schogt ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Prologue: The Second Coming of the Jews 1 Rehabilitation 2 Warsaw 3 Grandparents 4 New Year 5752 5 An Apartment in Lodi 6 Yorn Kippur in Lodi 7 Last Hours of Childhood 8 Kieke 9 Majdanek 10 Staszow Then and Now 11 Szifra 12 Our Time Has Come 13 We Work 14 The Other Way 15 The End of the Line 16 Auschwitz, 1991 17 The Kindness of Strangers 187 18 In the Orphanage 19 That Side Jordan 20 Greetings
