- Summary
- Victor Breitburg is a survivor of the Lódz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Rhemsdorf and Theresienstadt concentration camps. He was liberated with a group known as "The Boys". Their experiences have been documented in Sir Martin Gilbert's book, The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity. Victor's journey from Lódz, to the camps in Europe, to England, Scotland and the United States and his new life in America is the story told in this volume.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Breitburg, Victor, 1927- author.
- Published
- Buffalo, N.Y. : To Life Ink, [2012]
©2012
- Locale
- Poland
Chełmno (Koło)
- Contents
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Section 1: What is past is prologue
Long ago and far away
Storks, chickens books, and movies
A child's last vacation
A time ends and a life begins
Section 2: How then shall we live
Black September
Moving, smuggling and sawdust
The hardest year yet
Ghetto life, girls, death and praying
Resettlements and goodbyes
Section 3: By the rivers of Babylon we sadly hung there our harps
Chimneys, tears and surviving
Horses, ashes and pigs
A ray of hope
Escape, capture and a birthday present
I will surpass you
The White Cliffs of Dover
I am/you are/they are
America ... family ... America
Section 4: Over the distances of years and yearnings
More than trees grown in Brooklyn
Making my way
A memorial, a Torah cover and Christmas
The return to Lódz
Teaching the Holocaust
A final adjustment
The extras 1: Victor and me
The extras 2: The old man and his shadow by Victor Breitburg
The extras 3: The Holocaust images as described by Diana Lubarsky.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Krygier, Joseph G., author.
- Notes
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Section 1: What is past is prologue -- Long ago and far away -- Storks, chickens books, and movies -- A child's last vacation -- A time ends and a life begins -- Section 2: How then shall we live -- Black September -- Moving, smuggling and sawdust -- The hardest year yet -- Ghetto life, girls, death and praying -- Resettlements and goodbyes -- Section 3: By the rivers of Babylon we sadly hung there our harps -- Chimneys, tears and surviving -- Horses, ashes and pigs -- A ray of hope -- Escape, capture and a birthday present -- I will surpass you -- The White Cliffs of Dover -- I am/you are/they are -- America ... family ... America -- Section 4: Over the distances of years and yearnings -- More than trees grown in Brooklyn -- Making my way -- A memorial, a Torah cover and Christmas -- The return to Lódz -- Teaching the Holocaust -- A final adjustment -- The extras 1: Victor and me -- The extras 2: The old man and his shadow by Victor Breitburg -- The extras 3: The Holocaust images as described by Diana Lubarsky.
