LEADER 03756cam a2200553Ii 4500001 260746 005 20240621231638.0 008 171127t20172017nyu 000 0beng d 020 1939561566 020 9781939561565 035 (OCoLC)on1008769983 035 260746 049 LHMA 040 YDX |beng |erda |cYDX |dJ9U |dLHM 050 4 DS135.L53 |bW45 2017 100 1 Harris, Peter. 245 10 God's sabbatical years : |bthe story of Alan Weiler / |cby Peter Harris. 264 1 New York : |bJewishGen, an affiliate of the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, |c2017. 264 4 |c©2017 300 xiv, 208, 10 pages : |billustrations ; |c29 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 500 Includes registers of names of Vilnius and Vilnius area Jews who perished at Dautmergen (appendix page 1-10). 520 "As a boy, Alan Weiler lived in Vilna, Lithuania, a city famed for its Jewish learning. A promising student, Alan planned to attend the city's university and become a doctor. In 1941, when he was 13, Germans captured the city. The tried to flee, but were captured and brought back. Gangs began to roam the streets hunting Jews for bounty, dragging them to prison or massacre. Alan and his family were stripped of their belongings and sent to the Vilna Ghetto, where many starved or died. The Ghetto was itself only a stop on the way to a succession of concentration camps, where the only alternatives were slave labor or slaughter. Yet through a combination of guile, linguistic ability, and luck, Alan survived. During the Holocaust, about 95 percent of Lithuania's quarter-million Jewish population was murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. In telling his story to journalist Peter Harris, Weiler said it should be called God's Sabbatical Years, contending that "if there is a God in Heaven, he must have been on holiday" during those long years of suffering. This Holocaust memoir was written over 40 years ago, with only three typed copies produced. One surviving copy was being donated to the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide in London, when the archivist remarked to the author Peter Harris, that the books deserves to be published. So now this long forgotten important first-hand account of the horrors of the Shoah appears in print and are available to the public"-- |cAmazon. 530 Electronic version(s) available online. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Weiler, Alan, |d1928-1997. 650 0 Jews |zLithuania |zVilnius |vBiography. 650 0 Jewish ghettos |zLithuania |zVilnius. 650 0 Internment camp inmates |vBiography. 650 0 Nazi concentration camp inmates |vBiography. 610 20 Vaivara (Concentration camp) 610 20 Narwa (Concentration camp) 610 20 Kiviõli (Concentration camp) 610 20 Stutthof (Concentration camp) 610 20 Dautmergen (Concentration camp) 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. 650 0 Holocaust survivors |zEngland |vBiography. 650 4 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |zLithuania |zVilnius |vPersonal narratives. 650 4 Jewish children in the Holocaust |zLithuania |zVilnius. 650 4 Jewish ghettos |zLithuania |zVilnius. 651 4 Vilnius (Lithuania) 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 655 7 Personal narratives. |2lcgft 700 1 Weiler, Alan, |d1928-1997. 856 41 |3Electronic version(s) available. |zHosted by USHMM |uhttps://digitalarchive-assets.ushmm.org/pdf/bib260746_001_001.pdf 852 0 |bstacks |hDS135.L53 |iW45 2017 852 |bebook