Overview
- Summary
- A survivor of the Holocaust describes how he learned through his darkest experiences of the human capacity to rise above even the bleakest circumstances, and later used that knowledge to help underprivileged youth in Boston for more than forty years.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Hachette Books, 2018
- Locale
- United States
Massachusetts
Boston
Boston (Mass.) - Edition
- First edition
- Contents
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From broken glass
The trouble in the world
A life in America
Goodbye Lodz
Neighborhood services
A safe way out
A friend in Boston
The farm
Grandpa
The forest
Memory and escape
Dreaming of home
The man who lost his way
Work and death
Intervention
Self-preservation
Pinia
Opening the vault
Herzil
The end of hope
Heart trouble
Escape from Budzyn
Radom
No matter how bad
The honor of work
The train to Auschwitz
How I learned of Robert Hall
Tattooed
Matriculation
An empire falls
Dead, gone, and forgotten
The busing crisis
Guns in the distance
To never forget
Memorial rising
Liberation. - Notes
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From broken glass -- The trouble in the world -- A life in America -- Goodbye Lodz -- Neighborhood services -- A safe way out -- A friend in Boston -- The farm -- Grandpa -- The forest -- Memory and escape -- Dreaming of home -- The man who lost his way -- Work and death -- Intervention -- Self-preservation -- Pinia -- Opening the vault -- Herzil -- The end of hope -- Heart trouble -- Escape from Budzyn -- Radom -- No matter how bad -- The honor of work -- The train to Auschwitz -- How I learned of Robert Hall -- Tattooed -- Matriculation -- An empire falls -- Dead, gone, and forgotten -- The busing crisis -- Guns in the distance -- To never forget -- Memorial rising -- Liberation.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316513043
0316513040
9780316513081
0316513083 - Physical Description
- xix, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. School psychologists--Massachusetts--Boston--Biography. Holocaust survivors. School psychologists. Massachusetts--Boston. United States. Holocaust, 1939-1945--Personal narratives. School psychologists--Boston (Mass.)--Biography. Nonfiction. Autobiographies. Personal narratives. Biography. Ross, Steve,--1931- New England Holocaust Memorial.
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- 2019-01-11 12:26:00
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