Sara/Hannah: the gift of life : the story of Sara Matuson Rigler's survival when caught in the catastrophe of the holocaust, how she was saved by ten Brisith prisoner's of war whose compassion matched her courage and how she kept her promise to her brutally murdered family to remember and honor them by doing good in the world / as told to Hanita Blumfield.

Publication | Digitized | Library Call Number: DS135.L53 R54 1999

Overview

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Rigler, Hannah, 1928- author.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1999 and 2009]
Locale: Lithuania
Šiauliai
Great Britain
United States
Contents: 1. The geography of my heart
2. The darkness begins (the Russian Occupation 1940-41)
3. The ghettos
4. The camps
5. The death March
6. Survival
7. The Russians are coming
8. Despair, liberation and the beginning of a new life
9. America and a reconstructed life
10. At long last, my Bill
11. Doing good in the world
12. Retrospective.
Other Authors/Editors: Blumfield, Hanita, author.
Claims Conference Holocaust Survivor Memoir Collection (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Notes: 1. The geography of my heart -- 2. The darkness begins (the Russian Occupation 1940-41) -- 3. The ghettos -- 4. The camps -- 5. The death March -- 6. Survival -- 7. The Russians are coming -- 8. Despair, liberation and the beginning of a new life -- 9. America and a reconstructed life -- 10. At long last, my Bill -- 11. Doing good in the world -- 12. Retrospective.

Cataloged from electronic resource.

Language: English
Physical Description: 82 leaves, 32 unnumbered leaves : illustrations (black and white ;

Subjects: Jews--Lithuania--Šiauliai--Biography. Jewish ghettos--Lithuania. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Child Nazi concentration camp inmates--Biography. Death march survivors--Biography. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Ex-prisoners of war--Great Britain--Correspondence. Ex-prisoners of war--Great Britain--Diaries. Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography. Autobiographies. Biographies. Personal narratives. Rigler, Hannah,--1928- Rigler, Hannah,--1928---Correspondence. Stutthof (Concentration camp) Stalag XX B.

Funding Note: Access to this digital memoir made possible by USHMM on behalf of and with the support of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Special Collection: Claims Conference Holocaust Survivor Memoir Collection (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

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