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Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the
breaks. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity, but
eventually, the heavy doors opened, directly into the chaos inside.
Sara Leibovitz, a 16-year-old Jewish girl, was a passenger on the
train with her family. They spent their final moments together on
the platform in Auschwitz before their horrific fates were sealed.
Sara’s mother and baby brothers were sent straight to their
deaths. Her father was made to work in the Sonderkommando as one of
the men forced to remove the bodies from the gas chambers, and was
later executed. Sara survived. This is the powerful true story of
Sara Leibovits and the incredible pain and hardships she went
through during her time in the death camp. Yet despite the horrors
she faced, she always tried to maintain her family’s values of
courage, faith and kindness to others. In this compelling memoir,
Sara’s story is intertwined with that of her daughter, Eti.
Seventy years after the horrors of the Holocaust, Eti reveals the
inherited trauma of the second generation and completes the
Holocaust survivor’s tale.
Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the
brakes. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity, but
eventually, the heavy doors opened, directly into the chaos
outside. Sara Leibovits, a 16-year-old Jewish girl, was a passenger
on the train, together with her family. Within minutes, their
horrific fate was sealed. The little family spent their final
minutes together on the platform at Auschwitz before they were
ordered in all directions and each left to their own fate. Sara’s
mother and baby brothers were sent to their deaths. Her father was
made a Sonderkommando, one of the men forced to remove the bodies
from the gas chambers, and was later executed. This is the powerful
true story of Sara Leibovits and the incredible pain and hardships
she went through during her time in the Death Camp. Yet despite the
horrors she faced she always tried to maintain her families’
values ​​of courage, faith and kindness to others. Her story is
intertwined with that of her daughter, Eti, seventy years later,
who embodies the voice of the second generation and completes the
Holocaust survivors' tale.
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Yankinton (Hardcover)
Rachel Shihor; Translated by Sara Tropper, Esther Frumkin
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Set in the early days of the Jewish state, Yankinton tells the
stories of refugees from the Holocaust and antisemitism who
struggled to build new lives in Israel. Through the eyes of a young
Orthodox Jewish girl growing up in Tel Aviv, we watch a colorful
mosaic of characters from Soviet revolutionaries to weapons runners
during the War of Independence. Faced with the difficulties of the
traumatized adults around her, from panic attacks to suicide
attempts, the girl seeks moments of wonder among the struggle and
tragedy. We join her as she moves through the Tel Aviv streets,
avoiding the spots exposed to Arab sniper fire; seeks literature of
the wider world in a city awash in translations of Soviet
propaganda novels; and navigates the idiosyncrasies of the adults
around her. With her, we listen in on political discussions,
reminiscences of Russia and wartime Eastern Europe, and Soviet
revolutionary songs accompanied by balalaikas. We track the lives
of the couple for which the novel is named. Mrs. Yankinton smuggled
grenades in her baby’s carriage during Israel’s War of
Independence; for years after, she would end every day standing at
attention, alone in her living room, when the national anthem came
over the radio. Mr. Yankinton, whose arrest as a revolutionary in
Soviet Russia foiled his plans to study medicine, became the proud
curator of the Zionist visionary Jabotinsky’s complete works. In
this rich mosaic of scenes and characters from postwar Tel Aviv,
Shihor muses on the vital significance of the act of remembering
and of the search for flashes of magic in the darkness. Â
Jerusalem in the early 1990s, just before the Israeli prime
minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo Peace Accords and was
assassinated by a rightwing ideologue shortly thereafter. Naomi, a
former architect from secular Tel Aviv, has just married Jochanan,
a religious doctor who emigrated from Sweden. Days of Peace follows
Naomi through Jerusalem as she meets a rich cast of characters,
from an Arab beggarwoman in a park on a Sabbath afternoon to a
professor of biblical archaeology on a life-long quest to produce a
hand-lettered edition of the Bible. Kaleidoscopic scenes of the
city pass before our eyes: a ritual bath, a wedding hall, carpentry
workshops, bookstores, Hadassah Hospital, a former leper colony and
more. As Naomi's marriage deteriorates, she travels to Poland,
where the sorrow over those lost in the Holocaust intertwines with
her nostalgia for the early romance of her now-faded marriage. But
while the drama unfolds in the divorce court back in Jerusalem,
Naomi is on her ultimate search--to find her place in this
historical city. Written in deceptively simple, almost
conversational prose, Rachel Shihor's latest novel is a poignant,
layered portrait of a city and a young woman's quest to find
herself.
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